Word: tree
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Like the fall of a tree...
...greeted? Perhaps it is the solemnity, the grandeur of a marching host in the background, who wend their stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail and never can fail to elicit deafening plaudits from the house...
...room with a strong staple and rope. No doubt the first freshman that tries the escape will jump from the window with one end of the rope tied to the staple and the other around his body. The philosophical soph will run down stairs to tie it around a tree, and then go back to slide down. The junior will not need the rope, for he will be down at Carl Mattes' until all the fires on the premises have been extinguished. The senior will take a last, long lingering look at his Langtry chromo and die happy. - [Argonaut...
...main contents of the visitors room are huge folios which are "not to be handled without permission. "By way of relics, there is a brand new book carved out of a piece of wood taken from the Washington Elm. On the back is a picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Although the year is nearing its end, the senior class have as yet made no arrangements about admitting freshmen to the exercises around the tree on class day. Last year this subject was agitated somewhat, and gave rise to some very weak actions on the part of the senior class. The arrangement at that time was that the freshman class were to be excluded from the tree unless they won a game of base-ball with Yale. This arrangement is a similar one to the "fence" plan at Yale. But the propriety of such a rule here...