The Class Book also contains a full list of all persons who have at any time been members of the class, together with such information as can be gathered in reference to them; and an account of the prizes, deturs, parts at Exhibitions and Commencement, degrees, etc., of all its members.  Into it are also copied the Class Oration, Poem, and Ode, and the Secretary’s report of the class meeting, at which the officers were elected.  It is also intended to contain the records of all future class meetings, and the accounts of the Class Secretary, who is ex officio Class Treasurer and Chairman of the Class Committee.  By virtue of his office of Class Treasurer, he procures the Cradle for the successful candidate, and keeps in his possession the Class Fund, which is sometimes raised to defray the accruing expenses of the Class in future times.

In the Harvardiana, Vol.  IV., is an extract from the Class Book of 1838, which is very curious and unique.  To this is appended the following note:—­“It may be necessary to inform many of our readers, that the Class Book is a large volume, in which autobiographical sketches of the members of each graduating class are recorded, and which is left in the hands of the Class Secretary.”

CLASS CANE.  At Union College, as a mark of distinction, a class cane was for a time carried by the members of the Junior Class.

The Juniors, although on the whole a clever set of fellows, lean perhaps with too nonchalant an air on their class canes.—­Sophomore Independent, Union College, Nov. 1854.

They will refer to their class cane, that mark of decrepitude and imbecility, for old men use canes.—­Ibid.

CLASS CAP.  At Hamilton College, it is customary for the Sophomores to appear in a class cap on the Junior Exhibition day, which is worn generally during part of the third term.

In American colleges, students frequently endeavor to adopt distinctive dresses, but the attempt is usually followed by failure.  One of these attempts is pleasantly alluded to in the Williams Monthly Miscellany.  “In a late number, the ambition for whiskers was made the subject of a remark.  The ambition of college has since taken a somewhat different turn.  We allude to the class caps, which have been introduced in one or two of the classes.  The Freshmen were the first to appear in this species of uniform, a few days since at evening prayers; the cap which they have adopted is quite tasteful.  The Sophomores, not to be outdone, have voted to adopt the tarpaulin, having, no doubt, become proficients in navigation, as lucidly explained in one of their text-books.  The Juniors we understand, will follow suit soon.  We hardly know what is left for the Seniors, unless it be to go bare-headed.”—­1845, p. 464.

CLASS COMMITTEE.  At Harvard College a committee of two persons, joined with the Class Secretary, who is ex officio its chairman, whose duty it is, after the class has graduated, during their lives to call class meetings, whenever they deem it advisable, and to attend to all other business relating to the class.