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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...classmates entering intophysical competition, and to some extent losing their tempers and fighting with one another. The reason the Corporation do not want the exercises to take place around the old Tree is because the quadrangle between Harvard, Hollis and Stoughton and Holden Chapel is so small. It is said that if the seating area around the Tree had been under police regulation, we should have had to move some time ago, in order to accommodate the crowd. It really is horrid to think what might happen if the light skirts of one of the women caught fire, there would...
...dangerous arrangement than sould be secured about the Tree. Investigation, however, revealed that the position of the trees makes impossible the erection of suitable grand stands. It is true a greater seating capacity could be had, but only at the expense unduly of separating the spectators, not only into small groups among themselves but, also, from the classes. Such an arrangement would exclude those close relations between the spectators and the classes which have always been found so essential to the success of college exercises. It is for these reasons that the committee does not approve of a removal...
...raise money by general subscription for cups to be given to last year's 'Varsity nine, is to be acted on within a few days. Cash boxes are to be left in several frequented places and all members of the University asked to subscribe. The sum requested will be small, probably but twenty-five cents, and as it is hoped to raise $200.00 the subscription will have to be a general...
...Yard and from the outside may readily come together in the large meeting-room looking toward the west, or in the Assembly Hall above. To the east of the hall-way is a room to be used for occasional dinners, with a serving-room and stairway connecting with the small kitchen and other conveniences below. The remainder of the ground floor is to be devoted to the student volunteer work of the College. A memorial of Bishop Brooks and other memorial tablets are to form the simple decoration of the entrance hall...
...account of the small size of the building the corporation were unwilling to give it any other site than the one selected. This corner of the yard has been much objected to as a site, and the architect, Mr. A. W. Longfellow, Jr., '76, who has felt great responsibility in designing the building, has done all in his power to make it harmonize with its surroundings...