Word: senior
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the Executive Committee of the Senior class, it was decided that men of the class of 1918 who are still in college will not share in any of the Senior activities this spring. Many people felt that those members of the class of 1918 who were to receive their degrees this year, should be allowed to share in the Senior activities, such as the Picnic, Spread, and Class Day itself, which they had been deprived of in their own class because...
...Senior executive committee referred the matter to G. A. Percy '19, first marshal of his class. He said that the class of 1918 was to hold a dinner on Monday evening, June 16, and was also planning to hold some sort of a reunion on Class Day. He said further that he would prefer to have the 1918 men join in their own activities rather than those of the Seniors. Accordingly it was decided that men of the class of 1918 will not share in any of the Senior activities. However, they may procure Class Day tickets on the regular...
...Seniors are reminded that the first application for Class Day tickets at reduced rates closes this afternoon at six, o'clock. No application will be received after that time. The next application at higher prices, which has been previously announced, will close on Saturday, may 31st. After that time, Seniors may apply on the regular graduate application blanks, but will not receive the reduced rates. Blanks for the second Senior application have been placed in Leavitt & Peirce...
Dancing around Rebellion,--now called 'Liberty' Tree continued. Each Senior plucked a sprig or flower from a wreath to keep as a memento of college life. With the growth of the University, however, the scramble for flowers took on the nature of a riot, and consequently, about thirty years ago, many of the practices of Class Day had to be radically changed...
Class Day was started in 1760 by the election of one members of the Senior Class to deliver a valedictory address to the college, in Latin. It is interesting to note that at the first meeting to choose a Valedictorian, every members of the class brought a bottle of wine in his pocket. History relates there was "disorder...