Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a romantic side to the College it has manifested itself in those traditions which make Class Day what it is. The Tree Oration, the numerous Spreads, the Ivy Oration, the dancing, even the confetti battles in the Stadium have their antecedents in the Dark Ages of the College. The original tree was the "Liberty" or "Rebellion" tree which stood in front of Hollis and around which the riotous sophomores of "Rebelliad" notoriety circled in the light of the bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year...
...Epsom Downs the Derby starts at the bottom of what plainsmen would call a hill. With their necks low and their haunches spread the horses climb for half a mile while the crowd at the top of the hill ducks under the fence (it is never policed) and stands in the track watching them struggle up wearily and slowly. When the horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front...
Last night the patronesses for the Spread, the final list of Junior ushers, and the box and table list of the feminine guests were made known by Hamilton Heard '28, chairman of the Class Day Committee...
...clock tonight the Class of 1928 will begin its Senior Spread and Dance to the strains of Gene Rodemich's Metropolitan Orchestra in Memorial Hall and of Ives' Band in the Delta. The most colorful of Commencement Week festivities lasts until 3 o'clock...
...class-mates a few days of reunion near the Charles is latent in the man who sleeps obviously through the exercises heralding his farewell to Harvard, latent but almost never nonexistent. The very man who attempted through ennui to turn over a Brighton street car the night his Spread dance is found in the forefront of his class five years later hurling confetti at the Stadium jumping pits. The ritual of departure, prolonged as it may seem to the Senior, is the creation of men who have realized its too actual brevity when reviewed later by a graduate nostalgic from...