THE BURDEN OF THE SONG

The Class Day Committee, after nearly half a year of thorough work and careful planning, today prepare to rest their case. The brief is taken from their hands and the success or failure of the Day now depend upon the Weather-man and the Junior Ushers. The former, as the daily weather reports indicate, is of a highly temperamental nature which passes all human understanding. In his case reasoning will have to be abandoned in favor of a water-soaked, imploring faith. But the latter, closer within reach, may be reminded how much depends upon them. If, as seems probable at present, the Weather-man has turned on completely all the spigots on the floor above and gone to sleep leaving them running, the work of the Junior Ushers is tremendously increased. The job of fitting in thirty thousand people where ten thousand belong is never easy, anyway.

At all events, ushering on Class Day does not consist simply in punching the time clock at Harvard Hall, obtaining the decoration of a bronze badge, and devoting the rest of the day to finding out how many spreads it will "admit one" to. It is not a tacit invitation to "free lunch", any more than it pre-supposes personally conducted tours to Agassiz by the hour to show somebody's Aunt Agatha the glass flowers. If means two things: first, attending to visitors' wants; second, keeping from the Yard everybody who does not belong there. Experience in former years proves that fulfilling these requirements is no small responsibility. The work of the Junior Ushers, more than any other single factor, contributes to the "making or breaking" of the Day.