Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee of the Corporation seem to have taken an interesting stand in relation to the Tree exercises on Class Day. Let us hope their decision is not past reconsideration...
Their observation that football paraphernalia gives offence to refined ladies is unique in its isolation. I presume to say there are few if any ladies, outside of the Corporation, who would absent themselves from the exercises on this account; and surely the display of femininity there in the past is evidence, perhaps overlooked by an introspective committee. The symptoms of disgust among the ladies is quite generally confined to those outside the enclosure where it is presumably not unseemly garments which give offence...
...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 hence unscathed, but he is equally certain that the trifling irregularity in which his collar button suffered fracture was untainted by any ignoble motives of revenge. However, this whole question is one to be determined by the individual members of the class. They might draw up a solemn covenant...
...Senior class should support the Corporation in their proposition to do away with the Tree exercises, unless they can be so modified as to do away with all objectionable features. Harvard has taken the lead in abolishing many barbarisms of the past. She has dealt death blows to hazing and other forms of brutality. Why? Because Harvard men have realized that such practices are degrading, that the spirit that prompts them is meanness and cowardice. The men most eminently fitted for hazing was the "thug." Of course, there were many very admirable men that took part in hazing, but they...
...events the Corporation should at least allow the student body the opportunity of remedying the abuses to which they have objected before they insist upon abolishing a custom which is so intimately associated with the college life of the past, and so dearly treasured by the undergraduates (and we believe also by the graduates) of the present...