Word: halled
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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...
Another tradition, although less spectacular, has also fallen out of use. The Ivy Oration, beginning in 1865, was performed over a box full of class mementos which was buried solemnly against the west wall of old Gore Hall (where Widener now 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...
...Best in the Business" was at its best Wednesday night when it presented the annual spring band concert to a sparse Sanders audience. Spirited, lively music filled the ancient hall, with a brief interruption for "Die Wursthausen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn Musikanten," the perennial concert comics...
...other shows, the HTW has thrown contemporary stage conventions to the winds. Crediting its audience with more intelligence than do most Broadway producers, the Workshop and its director, Albert Marre, have produced a "Tempest" that crackles with surprises, fantasies, and abandon. Everyone on the stage at Brattle Hall last night, other than Prospero, was obviously having a grand time, and that feeling was what they tried most to transmute to the audience. "We are such staff as dreams are made on" became their thesis, and they proved it. By never once allowing a touch of realism to invade their island...
...Tempest" is probably Shakespeare's last play and it is certainly the last production by the Theater Workshop. The HTW has amply paid its debt to Shakespeare with this presentation. There's a spell of white-magic over Brattle Hall this week...