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Tickets for Class Day not taken by seniors will be sold singly from 11 to 1 o'clock at 9 Linden street. The price will be: Sanders Theatre, $2.50; Tree, $2; Memorial...
...should be present at each rehearsal. The opportunities for practice in the song are of necessity limited, and every one ought to avail himself of every chance to get well acquainted with this, the last of his college songs. A large number of men each year go to the tree without having the least knowledge of the song, and attempt to hum it over with the crowd at the last moment. This is a thing that should never occur. There will be little or no excuse this year for a man not knowing any thing about the song, as there...
...changing of the time of singing the class song at the tree is certainly a move for the better. This subject has been agitated a great deal during the past few years, but up to the present year nothing has come of it. Heretofore, the song has been sung after the cheering when every one was so hoarse that the attempt to sing generally ended in a ludicrous combination of groans and yells. This year, however, the song is to be sung before the cheering, when every one's voice is comparatively fresh. The effect ought to be much more...
There is evidently some misconception at Yale as to the manner of conduct here; for the Record, writing relative to the recent action of '82 in regard to '85 admittance to the tree, says: "Yet, supposing it to hold in full force, how is it to be carried out? Will the university appoint a vigilance committee to apprehend any stray freshmen who may be found craning their necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them...
...surprised to see in the comments of our exchanges regarding the now famous "freshmen and the tree," that the impression generally prevails that the freshmen are accustomed to sit up in the tree...