Word: performances
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...remembered, is the successor of the old Liberty Tree which formerly stood between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls and which was blown down toward the close of the last century. For eighty years or more, the Senior class has assembled on Class Day under the present Liberty Tree, to perform the flower exercises. At first the comparatively small size of the graduating classes made it possible for them to execute a dance around the Tree, after which each man detached a flower from the wreath; but as the classes grew larger the dance had to be given...
...Grace Church Choir, the Tufts College Glee Club, Mr. Stephen Townsend, Mr. J. J. Hayes, Mrs. G. W. Palfrey and Miss E. H. Atwater will also perform...
...unlimited good wishes and appreciation are not enough. The men who attend the game, as well as those who play, have an important part to perform. Their duty is to cheer enthusiastically and continually, whether Harvard is winning or losing. All athletic men who have played in important games, unite in saying that hearty cheering has a wonderfully encouraging and inspiring effect on a team. As a great volume of wildly enthusiastic cheers rolls across the field, the players forget their weariness and aches and bruises, and play with renewed energy and inspiration...
...class itself indirectly has a share in the blame. The members of 1900 have not supported and encouraged the team as they ought and made it feel that it represents somebody, has a duty to perform, and is responsible for its success or failure. If the eleven had been watched with interest in its practice and cheered with enthusiasm in its game, its present condition might be more encouraging...
...credit of the then Freshman class) started, last spring, a movement toward a new era of thorough good-feeling, and Ninety-six did all it could in its short time to help along the movement. Ninety-seven, as the Senior class, now has an important duty to perform...