Word: order
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will issue return postals early this week in order to get the opinion of every man who would take part in the Class Day exercises. This will be better than a class or mass meeting as it would reach all those who would not, or could not attend, and we know it would have more weight with the Corporation as it would be more nearly a complete opinion. It is absolutely necessary that these postals be returned immediately and answered in full...
...last few Class Days well remember. Then they leave Cambridge with fine impressions of the Harvard man! The mere fact that only one such case of dirty work is liable to occur ought to be enough to stop the exercises. Finally, there is absolutely no regularity or order about the "scrimmage," except such as is furnished by the club organizations; and that is a regularity that none of us want. If the scrimmage had some of the points of football in it, there might be some reason for keeping it, but a pall mall rough-and-tumble exhibition...
...fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble." Whatever trouble there may have been in past years has been caused by placing the flowers so high that it was necessary for groups of men to combine and struggle with other combinations in order to get them. If, as the Class Day Committee has suggested, the flowers were lowered so that they would be barely beyond one's reach when standing, there would be no need for combinations and the cause of the trouble would be removed...
With this point in view Manager Valentine has already entered into negotiations with the West Point Military Academy for a game on May 1, and with the University of Vermont and Bowdoin College. These last two games will undoubtedly be played on May 29 and 31 respectively, in the order named...
...order: Stroke, Bull; 7, Goodrich; 6, Perkins, J. F., Moulton; 5, Perkins, J. H.; 4, Sprague; 3, Hollister; 2, Thomson; bow, Boardman...