Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corporation. These gentlemen asked the committee for suggestions as to certain modifications of the exercises, they let it be understood that with these modifications they would have no objection to the ceremony about the Tree. After three weeks of diligent work, the committee drew up a plan which met every objection originally made by the Corporation. The flowers were to be lowered to avoid unnecessary roughness and to give every man an equal chance of getting flowers without the aid of cliques or squads, and a system of exits was devised by which the Tree enclosure might be emptied...
...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 met...
...Class Day Committee yesterday afternoon met the Corporation Committee for a final discussion of the "Tree" matter. We previously understood that their chief objection was in regard to seats, but we now find that they have taken a decided stand against any form of scrimmage whatever. In this they are unanimous, and believe that the Corporation as a whole fully back them up in all their ideas. They object to a scrimmage, first, because football clothes, which are dirty and offensive, are necessarily worn in the presence of refined ladies; second, because if football clothes were not worn, such weaker...
...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...
...scheme devised by Mr. Peabody, the architect, by which the fields would be separate but the seats would be in line and those of the diamond would continue in a curve behind the backstop. The running trach would enclose the football field. This met with the approval of Captain Dean and Captain Vincent...