Word: layed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...held to decide on the following matters: (1) The nature of the "Tree" exercises; (2) the two days scheme and senior dance. In order that the meeting may be conducted in a satisfactory manner, all men who intend to propose plans on either of these subjects are requested to lay them before the Class Day Committee. These will be published for the benefit of the class before the meeting. Such plans may be sent in writing to Matthews 22 or talked over in the same place between 1 and 2 o'clock Tuesday and Wednesday...
...held to decide on the following matters: (1) The nature of the "Tree" exercises; (2) the two days scheme and senior dance. In order that the meeting may be conducted in a satisfactory manner, all men who intend to propose plans on either of these subjects are requested to lay them before the Class Day Committee. These will be published for the benefit of the class before the meeting. Such plans may be sent in writing to Matthews 22 or talked over in the same place between 1 and 2 o'clock Tuesday and Wednesday...
...quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some underhand slugging, "pasting" a man, as it is called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they are going "to lay for so and so! " What must the spectators think of Harvard students when they see one man "slug" another around the Tree on Class Day? The first thing they do is to hiss, as those of us who were at the last few Class Days well remember. Then they leave...
...seems hardly credible that it should be necessary to remind Harvard men that, being no longer under the enforced discipline of preparatory schools, they should see to it themselves that they lay aside all childishness and begin to conduct themselves as gentlemen. As it is thought that the students are of an age and temperament to look with respect, if not with admiration, upon the men who-so often scholars of more than local reputation-have been assigned for their instruction, the College has offered in its curriculum no special course in manners...
...will be played at Andover and it is to be hoped that a large number of graduates of the two schools, now at Harvard, will go with the excursions to Andover today to see the game, and show their approval of the good sense which led the academies to lay aside their differences and renew their former athletic rivalry...