Commencement Procession Order

A change in the Commencement procession to Sanders Theatre has been made necessary by the increasing number of officers in the University and of candidates for degrees. In the future, among the officers of instruction, only professors, assistant professors, and other members of faculties, and among the alumni only graduates of at least twenty years' standing will be entitled to places in the procession. After the procession has entered the Theatre, the doors will be open to other officers and alumni, but no seats will be available.

The order of the procession has been announced as follows:

Candidates for the degrees: A.B., S.B., A.M., S.M., Ph.D., S.D., B.A.S., D.M.D., M.D., LL.B., S.T.B.; the President; Fellows of the Corporation; the Board of Overseers; the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor; the Governor's military staff; deans of the faculties, as follows--Harvard College, Arts and Sciences, Bussey Institution, Law School, Lawrence Scientific School, Graduate School, Dental School, Medical School, Divinity School; professors in the University; assistant professors; other members of faculties; other permanent officials; former members of the Corporation and Board of Overseers; former professors in the University; trustees of the Hopkins, Loan, and Sanders funds; ministers in old Cambridge churches and preachers to the University; Presidents of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Tufts College, Boston College, Episcopal Theological School, New Church Theological School, St. John's Ecclesiastical Seminary; Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education; United States Senators and Representatives; officers of the army and navy; Sheriffs of Suffolk and Middlesex; judges of the courts of the Commonwealth and of the United States; mayors of Boston and of Cambridge; officers of other universities, colleges, and professional schools; alumni of not less than twenty years' standing, by classes.