Excerpt from Memories of Brown: Traditions and Recollections Gathered From Many Sources<br><br>The literary exercises of commencement season begin on Tuesday. The graduating Class, on Monday and Tuesday, are engaged in rehearsing in the Old Baptist before the college Officers, and receiving the last touch Of the graces which they are to exhibit on Wednesday. The society Of undergraduates, who celebrate their anniversary on Tuesday, are obliged from this Circum stance to go to the Congregational meeting-house The exercises consisted then, as now, Of an oration and a poem identical in name with the exercises now, and nearly so in substance. The orator and poet then were selected from recent graduates Of the college, neither boys nor men, but just in a transition state, between students and men.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.