The Lieutenant-Governor and the Adjutant-General.
The President of the State Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Secretary of the State Board of Education.
The Mayors of the City of Cambridge and of the City of Boston, preceded by the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk.
Delegates from other Institutions of Learning.
And other Invited Guests of the University.
Professors and Assistant Professors of the College Faculty, The Faculty of Divinity,
The Faculty of Law, The Faculties of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine, and the Faculties of the Scientific Departments.
Other Officers of Instruction and Government in the University.
Professors of other Colleges and Universities.
Holders of Honorary Degrees from the University.
The Pastors of the Churches of the Six Neighboring Towns of 1642.
The Committee of Arrangements.
The Alumni of Harvard College and the Graduates of the Professional Schools in the Order of their Graduation.
By half-past nine o'clock, the sidewalks on Harvard and Main streets, outside of the yard, were one mass of humanity. The front of the First Parish Church was hidden by the crowd which had wisely selected this point as one where the procession from Boston, accompanying President Cleveland was to wheel and make its entrance into the college yard. To preserve the festive air of the entire scene, the Boston Cadet Band played from its position before Gore Hall, the bells all over Cambridge were ringing out their welcome to our President, as slowly his escort conducted him along the streets of Cambridgeport. At last the yard was reached at ten o'clock, and cheers and music gave notice of the fact to the waiting throng. The Lancers acted as body-guard to the President and to the officials who accompanied him. After reaching the gateway opening on Harvard Square, the body-guard formed in line, while the President's party drove past and, amid the booming of cannon on the Common, entered the yard. At Gore Hall, President Cleveland was received by the President of the University and was escorted into the Library by the state doors on the south - which so few of us have ever seen opened. In the mean time, the graduates resting on Main street wound back again and reached almost to Sever. In addition to this, there was another long line on the west of the Library, and in front of Boylston Hall were the old alumni. The procession in two lines abreast began its march around the quadrangle. Each class as it passed by cheered University Hall. Thence the route was to Harvard Square, and thence via Cambridge street to Sanders. The entrance to the theatre, however, was greatly hindered by the crowds on the steps, and by the difficulty of quickly finding seats for such a multitude. Long after the head of the procession had reached the theatre, the younger graduates at the end were but just passing Weld, so that it need scarcely be said that the last five hundred were unable to enter the theatre.
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