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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday the Class Day Committee respectfully submitted this plan to the Corporation committee, only to have it entirely rejected. It then became plain that from the first the Corporation had resolved upon the total abolishment of the time honored custom. Our class has been doubly aggrieved. Our opinions were asked for, and when offered were rejected without hesitation, and a custom which we all love is to be torn away from us. Further discussion of the objections of the Corporation is out of place, they have already been considered and, we believe, fairly...
...wholly unexpected announcement that the Corporation intends to end the old and honored Class Day custom of "scrimmaging" for the flowers about the "flower elm" will be received, by a very large part of the Senior class and of the whole undergraduate body, with the greatest astonishment and the most bitter feeling of opposition to the decision. It seems wholly unnecessary and unwarranted...
...reasons for opposing the abolishment of the "scrimmage" are many. Its use by many decades of Harvard classes and the many pleasant associations which have grown up with its development have established it as a custom dear to thousands of graduates and to almost the whole undergraduate body,- a custom which should not be ended unless objections which cannot be met are shown. If such objections are shown, however, mere sentimental reasons should not prolong its existence...
Contrary to the usual custom, the Yale seniors will not wear caps and gowns until after March 1st. This change has been made at the order of the '97 cap and gown committee, which deems it inadvisable for them to be worn until the cold weather is practically over...
...further asked: "Why should seats be reserved for one portion of the audience and not for another, at lectures specifically advertised as 'open to the public' and to which the public is officially invited through the University Calendar?" The custom of reserving seats for members of the University at the Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel, which are "open to the public," is at once an answer to the question and an example of a successful plan of reserving seats for students most of whom, unlike Cambridge citizens, do not feel that they have the time to go to lectures...