Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would cheer the different classes, popular men and the ladies as usual. Then they would form a large ring around the enclosure, sing "Fair Harvard" and cheer things especially connected with the class. Then, at a signal from the First Marshal, the ring would break up and the men rush for the flowers...
...large space would be of great advantage in executing the exercises, and in allowing unlimited seats at lower price. The four trees would make the scheme self-working. It would do away with combinations and the success of the rush would not depend upon the honor of four hundred students as the modified rush about the old tree does...
...plan of reserving seats for members of the University at Professor Moore's lecture last evening was most successful. For the first time, in the series of lectures by Professor Moore, students were able to get seats without joining in the rush of Cambridge citizens for the Fogg Museum an hour before the lectures commence and there wasting an hour in waiting...
...account of the lowering of the flowers, there would have to be a rush to wards the Tree at a given signal. As those near by would have the best chance of success, there would be an endless preliminary manoeuvering to get in the front rank, which would be most tiresome to the spectators. The Class Day officers would be powerless to keep the men from fighting for front place. There would be inequality of opportunity from the very start. Then when the crowed had once got around the Tree, there would be a block instead of a lively scrimmage...
This is a great change but it is merely going back to the old idea of a friendly rush. It meets the objection to football clothes and will appeal to the older graduates as being just what they used...