Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plans for the new dormitory at Columbia, which have recently been made public, show an entirely new departure in architecture of the kind. Instead of the usual four-story block, there will be a large building, capable of accommodating 800 students, with dining rooms, reading rooms, public parlors, private baths and the like. It will be, in fact, as complete as a large modern hotel...
...reason for the postal card vote was to show the Corporation the definite opinion of the whole class in the only way that would have any weight. After the Corporation Committee has definitely agreed to the proposed scheme, there will be a class meeting in which some form of Tree exercises will be finally adopted, and the question of an extension of the period settled...
...celebration would be a calamity. They would be forced to wander about with nothing to do but envy the elaborate hospitality of their richer class-mates; and the inevitable result would be that they would cease to entertain at all. Class Day would thus become a mere fashionable show, full of extravagance; a festival which the rich man would naturally enjoy, but which the poor man would have no share in. Any change which could lead to such a state of affairs can be regarded only as the worst evil which could possibly befall...
...that is to draw up a protest stating that if the Corporation abolishes the scrimmage around the Tree, the Class Day Committee will resign, and that there will be no Class Day whatever for the class of Ninety-seven. In this way alone the Seniors may show that they are in earnest, that the custom which is so lightly disposed of by the Corporation is of vital importance to them. It will arouse the graduates as no other protest could and it will bring the strongest pressure to bear upon the Corporation...
...Substitute some other exercises at the Tree and there will be no objection to continuing the custom." But is not the scrimmage the very essence of the custom? Is it not the tradition itself, around which the cheering and other details have grown up? A moment's examination will show this to be the case. Ever since the year 1815, and probably from a much earlier date, the flower exercises have been established at the Liberty or Farewell Tree, which, it must be remembered, is the successor of the old Liberty Tree which formerly stood between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls...