Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This text implies that religious teaching is not to continue to repeat the same thing; but to accept a lesson and to go on from that. Religion is like a tree, growing and changing because it is a living thing. Its growth is similar to that in literature; not that in science, where the messages and discoveries are definite. Literature, art, and religion deal with the infinite. Every new poet brings a new message, every prophet sees a new vision, perhaps not as great as a previous one but yet a new one. In the early history of Europe every...
...doubt the advantages of the cap and gown, there can be few who did not recognize a decided improvement in the abolishing of the class song. The class song has grown to be a very minor affair, and as regards its part in the programme at the tree exercises, considerable of a farce. It has never been learned and never sung with any unity or heartiness. The substitution of Fair Harvard last year was a welcome change. Everyone knows the air, the words are familiar and the associations connected with it appeal to each individual so that...
...spread at Beck Hall will be held immediately after the exercises round the Tree...
Foot ball jackets should be worn at the Tree...
...School and graduate students who are not graduates of Harvard College will not be admitted to the tree without tree tickets. This rule will be strictly enforced...