“Arrangements having been well matured, notice was secretly given out on Wednesday last that the obsequies would be celebrated that evening at ‘Barney’s Hall,’ on Church Street.  An excellent band of music was engaged for the occasion, and an efficient Force Committee assigned to their duty, who performed their office with great credit, taking singular care that no ‘tutor’ or ‘spy’ should secure an entrance to the hall.  The ‘countersign’ selected was ‘Zeus,’ and fortunately was not betrayed.  The hall being full at half past ten, the doors were closed, and the exercises commenced with music.  Then followed numerous pieces of various character, and among them an Oration, a Poem, Funeral Sermon (of a very metaphysical character), a Dirge, and, at the grave, a Prayer to Pluto.  These pieces all exhibited taste and labor, and were acknowledged to be of a higher tone than that of any productions which have ever been delivered on a similar occasion.  Besides these, there were several songs interspersed throughout the Programme, in both Latin and English, which were sung with great jollity and effect.  The band added greatly to the character of the performances, by their frequent and appropriate pieces.  A large coffin was placed before the altar, within which, lay the veritable Euclid, arranged in a becoming winding-sheet, the body being composed of combustibles, and these thoroughly saturated with turpentine.  The company left the hall at half past twelve, formed in an orderly procession, preceded by the band, and bearing the coffin in their midst.  Those who composed the procession were arrayed in disguises, to avoid detection, and bore a full complement of brilliant torches.  The skeleton of Euclid (a faithful caricature), himself bearing a torch, might have been seen dancing in the midst, to the great amusement of all beholders.  They marched up Chapel Street as far as the south end of the College, where they were saluted with three hearty cheers by their fellow-students, and then continued through College Street in front of the whole College square, at the north extremity of which they were again greeted by cheers, and thence followed a circuitous way to quasi Potter’s Field, about a mile from the city, where the concluding ceremonies were performed.  These consist of walking over the coffin, thus surmounting the difficulties of the author; boring a hole through a copy of Euclid with a hot iron, that the class may see through it; and finally burning it upon the funeral pyre, in order to throw light upon the subject.  After these exercises, the procession returned, with music, to the State-House, where they disbanded, and returned to their desolate habitations.  The affair surpassed anything of the kind that has ever taken place here, and nothing was wanting to render it a complete performance.  It testifies to the spirit and character of the class of ’53.”—­Literary World, Nov. 23, 1850, from the New York Tribune.