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...shade is not grateful, but rather to such a degree baneful, that, oppressed by the perennial gloom the grass grows but sparsely beneath its branches, and the damp, bare ground seems doomed to a lasting blight. Standing with its humble stature among the high-topped, overarching elms that surround it, this poor beech looks doubly stunted and deformed. To the occupants of Grays it is a constant eye-sore, as it seriously obstructs their view. To those rooming in Weld and Matthews it is a blot on the beauty of the landscape. It is the one defect in the general...
...change is needed in the time and place for the delivery of the ivy oration. I think it should immediately precede or succeed the exercises about the tree. If raised seats surround the tree, the orator, standing on a platform in the centre, will be able both to see his audience and to make them hear him. Inasmuch as the ivy will probably never take root, it might as well be planted under the tree as behind Gore Hall...
...single event, interesting only to those immediately concerned, - the breakfast given by Mr. Lowell to the graduating class. The outside world will not be expected to make themselves visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair will be seated on the soft boards which surround Holmes Field, and they will witness, in place of the exercises around the tree a base-ball match between the University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during...
...intended to have a decorative border of appropriate design surround this figure portion, and the ventilator underneath is to be filled with a representation of the helmet and arms of the Chevalier. On the acceptance of this window by the Class of 1844, work will probably be commenced on the other half of the window, which, when completed, is to contain a corresponding figure of Columbus. After the ice has thus been once broken and a window fairly erected, it is to be hoped that other classes, beholding the beauty thereof, will copy the good example thus set before them...
...wide for great ability or uprightness, it would certainly, in many cases, be setting a strong influence at work to raise the general tone of an undergraduate's life and lead him in those footprints on the sands of time to escape sometimes from the innumerable pettinesses which must surround...