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The exuberance on this occasion set a standard for subsequent Dartmouth gatherings.
A student orator `` produced tears from a great number of the learned '' even before the punch was served.
Then from the branches of a near-by tree an Indian underclassman, disdaining both the platform and the English language, harangued the assemblage in his aboriginal tongue.
Governor Wentworth contributed an ox for a barbecue on the green beneath the three-hundred-foot pines, and a barrel of rum was broached.
The cook got drunk, and President Wheelock proved to be a man of broad talents by carving the ox himself.
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