Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...polo team will probably have light practice every day until then in order to keep the men in good condition...
...strenuous plea is made in behalf of sentiment. That is all very well in itself. We all want to keep up the sentiments and traditions of Harvard as far as possible. But where a traditional practice is harmful, sentiment must yield. Human slavery was once a time-honored custom; but an enlightened generation abolished it. Hazing in American colleges was once a time honored custom; but, of late, it has been almost completely suppressed. So the argument for sentiment amounts to nothing if it can be shown that the custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument...
...have tried to meet these objections in every way we can think of, but without success. We have said we earnestly believe that the majority of the class desire to keep the Tree exercises as they are, but the committee of the Corporation believe that not even a petition signed by a large majority of the class would affect the decision of the whole Corporation. We were willing to grant every possible compromise in the way of lowering the wreath or doing away with the '97 emblem, but this did not meet the vital point of the scrimmage. In short...
...class really is in earnest in its wish to keep the Tree exercises in their present form it should not weakly allow the Corporation to make final confirmation of the committee's decision without giving public expression to its own opinion. A mass meeting of the class should be held Monday night...
...Corporation of the University has voted to give fifteen thousand dollars toward the improvement of Soldiers Field for athletics in consideration of the abandonment of the Carey Building for athletic purposes after this year. Even if the petition to keep Holmes Field for athletics is granted for this year, the field must be given up next fall and the Carey building will then be of little use for athletics. As it cannot be easily moved to Soldiers Field, it is to be thus disposed of, and, in time, it will probably be used for some University purposes...