Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of expressions of University opinion on the proposed action of the Corporation in regard to the Tree exercises on Class day, the CRIMSON publishes the following...
...ordinary protest or petition will be of the slightest weight. I believe there is but one thing for the Senior Class to do, and that is to draw up a protest stating that if the Corporation abolishes the scrimmage around the Tree, the Class Day Committee will resign, and that there will be no Class Day whatever for the class of Ninety-seven. In this way alone the Seniors may show that they are in earnest, that the custom which is so lightly disposed of by the Corporation is of vital importance to them. It will arouse the graduates...
...qualities after all are those of the man, not those of the gentleman." Backed by this eminent authority I protest with all the emphasis in the power of one who clings fondly to the few remaining occasions in Harvard life which call for a display of sentiment, that the Tree scrimmage should no be abolished for such a purely fastidious reason. If the smell of perspiration has been "nauseating" to the few people who happen to stand by when the successful "rusher" presented his crimson rose to "some other fellow's sister," the improved exits will hereafter enable...
...committee of the Corporation seem to have taken an interesting stand in relation to the Tree exercises on Class Day. Let us hope their decision is not past reconsideration...
...plan of the Class Day Committee to send out return postal cards to each member of the Senior Class, asking his opinion on the Corporation's threatened abolishment of the "Tree," must receive the hearty co-operation of the class. The expression of opinion contained in the replies can only be of value if a complete poll of the class is taken. Let every man in the class fill out his blank card at once and return it to the committee...