“Peking was the scene of the birth of the Chinese Quinquennial of the Class, during the winter of 1910.” “Yung Gwei, Chinese secretary in the Princeton in Peking [a YMCA institute run by PU alumni] went hunting bargains in costumes. To Yung Gwei, who labored for days devoting most of his time to collecting the unusual and valuable lot of costumes that adorned 1906 at the Fifth Reunion, the Class is indebted for their entire success.”

“This is the way things were bargained for in costuming the Fifth Reunion. It was an effort to have represented at Princeton all of the most usual figures that make up the ever-changing kaleidoscope of a Peking street scene. The two most striking spectacles in the dusty streets of the Celestial capital are funerals and weddings. A funeral, gorgeous and Imperial, was decided on for the Eli Bulldog as the central motif. Costumes were bought accordingly.”

“There are high officials in your Peking street throng, . . .farmers in broad straw bonnets, Manchu ladies in lofty, sail like head-dresses, peddlers clanging their wares, priests and holy men. The whole variegated list of costumes of the fifteen or more characters of the Peking street scene . . . — the motley lot, billed as theatrical property, arrived in Princeton just the night before Commencement started.”