Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hollis Street.- Beerbohm Tree in his Repertoire...
...promptly acknowledged good by the Corporation Committee. A summary of this plan was published in Monday's CRIMSON. I personally feel that this plan would be a success, although it would depend wholly on the way the men would go at it. Men would struggle in to the Tree and having won their decent amount of flowers would gladly be allowed to make room for those behind by squeezing past them and getting out of the way. Some means would be found of giving a fair start...
...that it appears that the members of the Corporation Committee have never wished to give up the Tree exercises but only to modify their objectionable features, does it not seem that a great deal of breath has been wasted, not only wasted but wasted unbecomingly? The Corporation does not seek to attack the interests of the student body. It is made up of men who by word and deed have shown that they have undergraduate interests at heart, and is not respect and duty to his elders one of the first qualities of every gentleman, above all of any Harvard...
...account of the lowering of the flowers, there would have to be a rush to wards the Tree at a given signal. As those near by would have the best chance of success, there would be an endless preliminary manoeuvering to get in the front rank, which would be most tiresome to the spectators. The Class Day officers would be powerless to keep the men from fighting for front place. There would be inequality of opportunity from the very start. Then when the crowed had once got around the Tree, there would be a block instead of a lively scrimmage...
...other hand, the new plan proposed in yesterday's CRIMSON, seems a much better one. The arrangement of details would be very simple. For example, a platform might be erected in the Tree, and flowers thrown out from it in every direction. If it should seem best to have the men who do the throwing concealed, they might be stationed behind a screen of evergreens. The great advantage of this new plan seems to be that there could be no prolonged scrimmage, as the flowers, falling lightly on a compact mass, could never reach the ground...