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This is the second in an ongoing Gazette series giving our readers and viewers a glimpse into the life of Harvard after dark. Here, photographer Kris Snibbe captures the ghostly just-past-dusk feel in and around the Yard. The images are accompanied by an evocative fragment of a journal entry by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I went to the College Jubillee ... . A noble & well thought of anniversary. The pathos of the occasion was extreme ... . Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts, but on that day, the anointed eye saw the crowd of spirits that mingled with the procession in the vacant spaces, year by year, as the classes proceeded; and then the far longer train of ghosts that followed the Company of the men that wore before us the college honors & the laurels of the state - the long winding train reaching back into eternity.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson