Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . o publicworship. There they had stopped with the rest of thePuritans. The sound of an organ or even a bass-violwithin a Baptist meeting-house then would have clearedit of people as quick as the cry of fire from without. Butat commencement, these narrow prejudices, as Episco-palians viewed them, gave way to the good of the college,and the whole band played, and livelier tunes, too, thanOld Hundred or Martyrs. The president then made anextempore prayer, prepared for the occasion. Thebest scholars in the graduating class
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . o publicworship. There they had stopped with the rest of thePuritans. The sound of an organ or even a bass-violwithin a Baptist meeting-house then would have clearedit of people as quick as the cry of fire from without. Butat commencement, these narrow prejudices, as Episco-palians viewed them, gave way to the good of the college,and the whole band played, and livelier tunes, too, thanOld Hundred or Martyrs. The president then made anextempore prayer, prepared for the occasion. Thebest scholars in the graduating class then spoke theirpieces. The first in order was the second in standing inhis class. He opened the speaking by salutatory ad- M emories o o/B rown 15 dresses in Latin to the audience, the officers, the learnedfaculty, his classmates, he turning to each in successionas the sheriff used to turn round men in the him others of the class spoke, some in prose andsome in poetry, and some in both until about twelveoclock, when the procession again formed and returned. Presidents House and University HallFrom an old engraving to college for dinner. The same order was preserved asin their downward progress in the morning, being whatmilitary men call left in front. First were the under-graduates, then the graduating class, then the graduatesaccording to age and honor, then the trustees and learned faculty, and the president. They changed front at the dining-hall door. From thisthe undergraduates were excluded. The hall was gener-ally well filled in a very short space of time, each old 6 Memories of Brown graduate well prepared to keep down the interest on thefour dollars he invested in the commencement dinnerfund when he was in college. There used to be wine,too, on the tables, and doctors in divinity, after the un-usual labors of the morning, deemed it not improper toindulge in one glass, and in at least one more, to enablethem to undergo the fatigues and pleasures of the af
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