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As it is, the Senior class has every reason to be indignant. The Class Day Committee has not been fairly dealt with by the gentlemen of the Corporation. These gentlemen asked the committee for suggestions as to certain modifications of the exercises, they let it be understood that with these...
The second objection, that the football clothes are offensive has still less weit. Judge Holmes, in speaking of the Harvard men who fought for their country said that "the greatest qualities after all are those of the man, not those of the gentleman." Backed by this eminent authority I protest...
The objection that the occasion offers an acceptable opportunity for the settlement of past grievances is a matter difficult to determine, but doubtless the committee has obtained testimony on this point, as positive as that which props their first indictment. Certainly the present writer in his generation did not go...
As the last objection I think the suggestion in your editorial of Saturday's issue furnishes a complete rejoinder, viz, that the members of the class do consider their participation in said scrimmage compatible with their cultivation and their gentlemanliness. In this they apparently differ from the Corporation, but it...
The Corporation may reply, "No. Substitute some other exercises at the Tree and there will be no objection to continuing the custom." But is not the scrimmage the very essence of the custom? Is it not the tradition itself, around which the cheering and other details have grown up? A...