Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tree tickets, $1.75 each...
Graduates must have tickets to the Yard and Tree. They may obtain one of each free at any one of the graduate sales. These sales are June 18 and 19 from 11 to 12 at the Parker House, June 18, 19, 20 and 21 from 2 to 3 at Harvard Hall...
...several years too few men have entered the fight at the Tree, and the old cry of "Harvard indifference," which those of us familiar with Harvard life know to be as untrue as it is demoralizing, has been heard in this new field. Too many men have gone to the Tree with friends, or for some other reason have failed to march in with their class and the "Wild ring about the Liberty Tree," which Longfellow mentioned in his Journal on Class Day, 1846, is in danger of being not much larger in the number of participants than...
Every man in '95 ought to enter the Tree enclosure dressed in a football suit, or in some similarly appropriate outfit, whether he intends to go into the fight or not. He owes at least so much to himself, to his class and to Harvard. There is nothing more unique or more picturesque in American college life than the struggle for the flowers on Class Day. Harvard men everywhere are proud of it and they like to see the old traditions honored each year by the seniors. It is not a personal fight and there is no danger to limb...
Certainly '95 can be trusted to check this tendency towards small gatherings at the Tree. There ought to be at least 350 men in football suits, and only the First Marshal and the three members of the Class Day Committee should wear caps and gowns. This matter has given much worry to previous committees, and I know that Arthur R. Crandell '92, Frank W. Hallowell '93, and Russell B. Beals '94, chairmen of the respective Class Day Committees, and all graduates who wish to see this annual celebration the gayest and jolliest college holiday in America will heartily endorse...