Word: tree
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present at the tree? Yes, I rather enjoyed sitting on the grass and looking up at the windows. Very pretty were the bits of color, - crimson, white, and blue, - that relieved the dull, grim red of the old buildings. But the exercises seemed a good deal of a farce to me. I fell down, and was stepped on, and the ladies laughed, - so I was glad to get out again...
...Freshmen deserve great praise for their self-control in refraining from molesting the Sophomores at the tree, and it is to be hoped that room at the tree will always be found in future for the Freshman class...
...person who, in a recent letter, attempted to explain away a suggestion advocating the admitting of Freshmen to the Tree on Class Day next, is, to say the least, illogical in his arguments and narrow in his views. He talks of "pleasing the Freshmen at the expense of the other classes," in a tone which is arrogant and unfair...
...from which he began; for, whereas he stoutly urges the exclusion of the Freshmen, he magnanimously adds that he is convinced that the Class-Day Committee would admit them, provided they sit quiet on the green next to Holden and do not join in a ring round the Tree...
...Class of '82 have already brought honor to the College; so far they have shown themselves gentlemen, and there is no reason to believe that they would indulge in any rush if admitted to the Tree. They should be allowed there on equal terms with the other classes; and this right would be appreciated and appropriately regarded by them...