Commencement. At Cambridge
at 8 in president's room. Corporation there. We tried on the President's new
cap. At ten we went to the library. Soon the Governor came with his aids, the
overseers, etc.; also Mr. Douglas, United States Senator. Procession moved to
church with a band of music. On the platform were Messrs. Sumner, Wilson,
Banks, Douglas, all men of mark. My class mustered sixteen; twenty-five years
out of college. Met in a room near the church; pleasing but sad remembrances.
SOURCE: William
Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence: With Extracts from His Diary and
Correspondence, p. 154
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