Word: tree
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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UNDER the cloak of irony a writer in the last Crimson raises the cry, "Away with the exercises around the tree on Class Day. They are a disgrace to the students, making them appear as rowdies and boys rather than as gentlemen. Let us have no more of them...
This view of the case has been set forth before, and is, perhaps, gaining adherents each year. While admitting that it has some truth in it, we are loath to believe that the exercises at the tree have so far degenerated into boyish rowdyism that the only course whereby the Seniors can show themselves still to be gentlemen is to abolish the whole performance. Cannot the much that is good be separated from the evil, and preserved to give variety to the diversions of Class...
...nonsense of the proceeding, the truth of the well known rhyme about "a little nonsense" and "the wisest men" shows that if any wish to be foolish they have good precedent therefor, and if not, no one compels them to attend the exercises at the tree...
...innovation. The nature of its error is apparent to all of us who have howled in the Yard in our Freshman year, who were properly drunk at the class supper in our Sophomore year, and who, finally, are determined to give a last exhibition of our culture around the tree...
...very brooks drank of the lotos-tree...