Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...another reason, almost as satisfactory to many as those preceding, the outcome is pleasant. We were led to believe that an important part of a set of exercises, wholly for the pleasure and under the control of the class, was to be abolished without the consent, and almost wholly without asking the opinion, of those who were most directly concerned. The class was even informed that a petition signed by a majority of their number would not have weight. This was one of the most irritating circumstances in the whole affair and led to much of the bitter feeling which...
...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 modifications they would have no objection to the ceremony about the Tree. After three weeks of diligent work, the committee drew up a plan which met every objection originally made by the Corporation. The flowers were to be lowered to avoid unnecessary roughness and to give every man an equal chance of getting flowers...
...gentleman." Backed by this eminent authority I protest with all the emphasis in the power of one who clings fondly to the few remaining occasions in Harvard life which call for a display of sentiment, that the Tree scrimmage should no be abolished for such a purely fastidious reason. If the smell of perspiration has been "nauseating" to the few people who happen to stand by when the successful "rusher" presented his crimson rose to "some other fellow's sister," the improved exits will hereafter enable the few to stand aloof, and leave to the many the enjoyment...
...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 can not be defended...
...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 up, and for the same reason it became more difficult to obtain the flowers. And so the scrimmage for the flowers came to take the place of the dance, and soon after the fifties the exercises were much the same as they are today. To be sure, the height of the flowers was gradually increased...