Word: classe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following plan has been suggested for the exercises about the Class Tree. It has been proposed that instead of the scrimmage, to which there seems to be so much objection, there should be a shower of flowers from the Tree upon the heads of the Seniors as they stand grouped about it. This would seem to be a pretty certain cheek upon all combinations and unnecessary disorder; and, on the other hand, the old flower tradition would be retained and the mementos prized as highly as ever...
...reply to a letter from the Class Day Committee suggesting changes that they were will to make, President Eliot has answered for the committee of the Corporation saying that he feels no doubt that an adjustment of the present difficulties about the Tree can be reached. He asks that the Class Day Committee put their suggestions in writing and in definite form. These suggestions were substantially what appeared in this morning's CRIMSON,- to lower the flowers, to wear citizens clothes, to provide against combinations; and besides these a definite plan of seats must be drawn...
...CLASS DAY COMMITTEE.January...
...source of great relief and pleasure, after the excitement and wordy warfare of the past few days, to find that after all the "Tree" exercises are not in such imminent danger of being abolished as students were at first led to believe. The Class Day Committee was yesterday told that its last set of proposed changes will serve as a basis for an adjustment of the debated question; and that the position of the committee of the Corporation on the "scrimmage" has changed from what we were led to believe was their immovable opposition to an apparent readiness to agree...
...objectionable features, however, which have crept into the exercises since the introduction of the class member,- these might easily be removed without destroying the essential value of the affair, which is nothing more than a good-natured, rough-and-tumble scrimmage. It would seem that the suggestion of the Class Day Committee to dispense with the number, and also to lower the wreath, would do away with all offensive roughness, and the necessity of forming large combinations in order to obtain the flowers...