Word: tree
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...entrance to the seats around the Tree will be between Holden Chapel and Hollis Hall, and will be open at 5. After the exercises at the Tree, and during the remainder of the evening, a ticket will be required of every gentleman, or of gentlemen accompanied by ladies, entering the portion of the Yard enclosed by the rope. These tickets are not to be given up on entering the Yard, but merely to be shown to the officer...
From the close of the exercises at the Tree till 9, the President will receive the class and their friends at his house; no gentleman will be admitted without a ticket...
...person will be admitted to the church (before the class), or to the exercises at the Tree, without a reserved seat; and no gentleman to Memorial Hall, the President's Reception, or the Yard in the evening, without a ticket...
Seniors are most earnestly requested to avoid any absurdity of dress at the exercises around the Tree, for upon the good order and gentlemanly conduct of the Seniors this year depends the future continuance of the "Dancing round the Tree." They are also asked to use discretion in the distribution of the tickets to the Yard...
...might state, for the benefit of the unsophisticated, that during the exercises about the Tree the Yard will be probably unoccupied except by a few policemen, a small crowd of Cambridge "democrats," and a disconsolate majority of the Freshman class...