Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Boston.- Denman Thompson: "The Old Homestead...
...question of the Tree has again arisen. This year it is of more than ordinary interest to Seniors since it involves not only a change in the exercises themselves, but, also, on account of the opposition of the Corporation to the old site, the removal to a new place...
...restore to the exercises the lively interest occasioned by a real scrap, the committee applied to the Corporation to allow the flowers to be raised again and the Seniors to wear sweaters. The request was refused and the committee was told that the exercises, if continued at the old place, would have to be held under exactly the same conditions as last year. The committee was also told by members of the Corporation that, on account of the rapidly increasing size of the classes, and the already overcrowded and dangerous conditions under which the exercises are held, the Corporation would...
...first feeling on hearing it suggested that the Tree Exercises be given up is of instinctive opposition. That Harvard should have to relinquish an old custom even if grown degenerate, and further the location which has become associated with that custom, seems at first sight must be avoided at any cost. Consider, however, what to the college man of today is an old custom. To the majority it is simply one which ruled in their Freshman year, so shifting is the college community, and so soon are traditions formed. To call the actual exercises around last year's tree...
Lectures on the Old Greek Comedy.Professor B. L. Gildersleeve, of Johns Hopkins University, will deliver a course of lectures on the old Greek Comedy, on April 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13. These lectures will be given at 4.30 in the afternoon, in Harvard 1. The subjects are as follows...