Whether the Class Day exercises should be lengthened to extend over more than one day is a question both sides of which will have strong support. Some Seniors will oppose any change.
It seems, however, as if some lengthening of the exercises would be beneficial. Just how much they should be lengthened it is hard to say. One day has been found, by a large number of those who have graduated in recent years and those who have been their guests on Class Day, to be too short for a full enjoyment of the various events of the occasion. Three days would prove probably as much too long. A moderate lengthening of the exercises, making them cover the whole or the larger part of two days, commends itself as the best plan so far suggested. This would be the last change that could be made, if one is to be made at all, and would make the time long enough to carry through the exercises without undue haste, excitement or discomfort. A programme might be made which would bring on the first day the exercises in Sanders Theatre in the morning, a 'varsity base-ball game in the afternoon and the illumination in the Yard, the music by the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, the dancing in Memorial and the Gymnasium, and spreads in the evening. On the second day the chapel services for the Senior Class could be held in the morning, the tree exercises in the afternoon and in the evening, to end the exercises, the proposed Seniors' farewell dance.
This or a similar programme, covering not longer than two days, would give the members of the graduating class time to entertain their guests more fittingly and to enjoy the exercises themselves as they have not been able to do for several years. It would heighten the enjoyment of a very large majority of the guests and inconvenience very few. Those visitors who live in the neighborhood of Boston could as easily come to Cambridge two days as one if they cared to attend both days. To those who come from a distance one day more or less would make little difference.
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PROPERTY FOR HARVARD COLLEGE.