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Liquor also was used to lubricate the famous Tree Exercises on occasion. This tree stood between Harvard Hall, Hollis, and Holden Chapel; around 1815, seniors used to gather around it to sing and give cheers for such individuals as the president or a favorite janitor at the direction of the marshal. Later on, all classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath...
...stands): Ivy was ceremoniously planted over the box, but when all the plants died in 1876, this custom came to an end. The Ivy Orator, of course, has survived, but the Oration that began as a sober dedication later changed to a humorous speech. Two of the more famous Orators have been George Lyman Kittredge '82 and Robert Benchley...
...years after his death, Hawthorne was principally famous as the author of children's stories. Generations of schoolchildren read The Great Stone Face without appreciating the political allegory (and the attack on Whig Daniel Webster) that it contained...
...been produced in Manhattan, while publishers have busied themselves resurrecting his prewar fiction. His second book, The Wall, a volume of short stories first published in France in 1939, was brought out in the U.S. last year (TIME, Dec. 27). It is now followed by his first and most famous novel, Nausea, a book that made a splash among Paris intellectuals in 1938. Sartre's recent essays in What Is Literature? are, by comparison, distinguished for their sanity...
...would have believed it impossible for double basses and cellos to play so softly and clearly as they did in the famous opening theme of the final "choral" movement. It is playing like this which makes ridiculous the claims of the Ninth Symphony's detractors that the melody is nothing but at "drinking tune." The Glee Club was obviously well trained by Professor Woodworth. They made no slips at all Friday afternoon, and the one minor error, Saturday, when, in one passage Kousse- vitzky cued them in a measure too late, was not their fault. The quartet of soloists included...