Word: standing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee had taken this stand at first; if it had not encouraged the Senior class with groundless hopes, and led them to believe that it looked for the modification of the Tree exercises and not their abolishment; the students would have respected its opinions and given it the credit of being frank and sincere...
...clings fondly to the few remaining occasions in Harvard life which call for a display of sentiment, that the Tree scrimmage should no be abolished for such a purely fastidious reason. If the smell of perspiration has been "nauseating" to the few people who happen to stand by when the successful "rusher" presented his crimson rose to "some other fellow's sister," the improved exits will hereafter enable the few to stand aloof, and leave to the many the enjoyment of an institution which they hold dear. The custom is sentimental; the behavior of the gentlemen is just as inelegant...
...committee of the Corporation seem to have taken an interesting stand in relation to the Tree exercises on Class Day. Let us hope their decision is not past reconsideration...
...College, and particularly of every Senior, to consider the question of abolishing the "scrimmage" very carefully and calmly. For every Senior in the postal card poll or in the class meeting, and probably every other undergraduate in mass meeting will be called upon to take some decided stand. That the question is the most important that undergraduates have had to consider this year is shown by the intense excitement created throughout the student body and in the very fact that the Corporation is willing to interpose such peremptory and in our opinion uncalled for interference in a purely student affair...
...Class Day Committee yesterday afternoon met the Corporation Committee for a final discussion of the "Tree" matter. We previously understood that their chief objection was in regard to seats, but we now find that they have taken a decided stand against any form of scrimmage whatever. In this they are unanimous, and believe that the Corporation as a whole fully back them up in all their ideas. They object to a scrimmage, first, because football clothes, which are dirty and offensive, are necessarily worn in the presence of refined ladies; second, because if football clothes were not worn, such weaker...