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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew on board, but as it could not hold so many they had to transfer them to the referee's tug. This took so long that by the time the men were all got on board the tug the Freshman and Law School crews were both out of sight in the dusk...
...these prizes because of their victories over the representatives of the college which always has been and always will be Harvard's greatest rival,- Yale. Such success is the end which all Harvard teams have in view, and if gained, the preliminary contests leading to its attainment are lost sight...
...first feeling on hearing it suggested that the Tree Exercises be given up is of instinctive opposition. That Harvard should have to relinquish an old custom even if grown degenerate, and further the location which has become associated with that custom, seems at first sight must be avoided at any cost. Consider, however, what to the college man of today is an old custom. To the majority it is simply one which ruled in their Freshman year, so shifting is the college community, and so soon are traditions formed. To call the actual exercises around last year's tree...
...move entirely away from the old enclosure is, at first sight, an infinitely harder step to take than to modify the exercises in the same place. Even if the exercises are degenerate, the associations of the place still remain. But after all is not a move inevitable, and illustrative of the expansion of the College? Let Seniors look at the old place and consider the law laid down by the Corporation, and they will see clearly that there is no room for improvement over the ill success of last year. The courses which lie open are either to move...
...stand in the Memorial Transept was eminently unfitting, refused to allow its continuance, but gave their consent to the arrangement which the committee have today made public. To wit:- that the Dining Association take the responsibility of the sale of papers; that the base of supplies be out of sight down stairs; that two boys be employed to sell the papers, one to stand at the door inside the Dining Hall, the other to circulate among the tables...