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PRINCE HENRY'S VISIT TODAY

Programme for the Day.--Arrangements at Sanders Theatre and the Union.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

Prince Henry of Prussia will become the guest of the University at 1 o'clock today. At that hour the Honorable Francis C. Lowell and Major Henry L. Higginson, in behalf of the Corporation, will call upon him at Hotel Somerset to escort him to Cambridge. Shortly after 1 o'clock, the procession of carriages, led by a battalion of state troops, will leave for Cambridge and will arrive at Memorial Hall at 1.30 o'clock. The route to the University will be way of Massachusetts avenue to the City Hall, where a short stop will be made to enable the Mayor of Cambridge to welcome the Prince to this city. From there the procession will pass along Lee, Harvard and Cambridge streets to Memorial Hall.

RECEPTION AT SANDERS THEATRE.

President Eliot and other members of the Corporation will receive the Prince at the entrance and will escort him to the Theatre, where the exercises will occupy about twenty minutes.

LUNCHEON IN UNIVERSITY HALL.

At 1.50 o'clock, the Prince and his suite, accompanied by the President and guests, will pass through Cambridge and Peabody streets and will enter the Yard through the Johnston Gate, between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, and will proceed thence to University Hall. In University Hall luncheon will be given by the President and Fellows to the Prince's party, members of the Faculties and other guests.

At 3 o'clock, the President will escort Prince Henry to the Union, passing through the Johnston gate and down Massachusetts avenue to Quincy street.

EXERCISES AT THE UNION.

The programme of the exercises at the Union will be as follows:

1. Singing of "Fair Harvard" led by Glee Club.

2. Speech by Major Henry Lee Higginson.

3. Speech by R. C. Bolling.

4. Poem by R. M. Green.

5. Cheering for Prince Henry.

6. Speech by Prince Henry.

7. Song, "Our Director."

The presiding officer will be R. Derby '03.

RECEPTION AFTER EXERCISES.

A little after four o'clock the Prince will leave the Union to attend a reception given at Professor Munsterberg's house for members of the Germanic Museum Association. Here speeches will be made by the Honorable Carl Schurz, president of the Association, President Eliot and Prince Henry. After the reception, at 5.30 o'clock, the Prince will return to Boston.

Secretary Long of the Navy has telegraphed that he will attend the exercises today. Third Assistant Secretary Peirce will also be present, representing the Department of State.

At a late hour last night Prince Henry's special train was reported nearly on time at Rochester, N. Y.

FOR TICKET HOLDERS AND OTHERS.

Those students who have obtained tickets for the reception at Sanders Theatre are requested to be at the Theatre at 1 o'clock, if possible. The doors will be closed at 1.45 promptly. Students should be careful to enter by the door indicated by the ticket. It is suggested that those who have not obtained tickets for Sanders Theatre assemble between 1.30 and 2 o'clock in the Yard, on each side of the road by which the carriages will drive from the Johnston Gate to University Hall, and that they mass themselves particularly in front of Massachusetts and Harvard Halls. O. G. Frantz '03 will be present to lead cheering. Students are particularly requested to keep off the driveway in this part of the Yard.

Those who have obtained tickets for the exercises in the Union must be in the club-house before 2.45.

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