Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...singly. Seniors are requested to bring exact change. After this sale seniors must pay regular prices for all tickets. From 12 to 1 p. m. the committee will be at 10 Holworthy to purchase tickets from seniors who have more than they can use. The return of Sanders and Tree tickets is especially desired...
...redeem tickets. Any senior who has not yet secured his package may purchase one at this time. Yard tickets may also be purchased. Seniors who find themselves with more tickets than they need may sell them to the committee at the prices which they paid. Sanders and Tree tickets will be gladly received. Seniors will remember that the conditions require that tickets shall be sold only to the committee...
...attention has been called to a little matter which concerns the sale of Tree tickets to seniors. For the last day or two tickets have been sold to seniors in packages, the packages being drawn by lot. In this way it is a mere matter of chance whether the tickets are for good seats or poor ones. This is a very good way of avoiding the necessity of using the system of standing in line. As matters now stand, every senior who has applied for Tree tickets is supplied with a package; some men have had the luck to draw...
...other point which the writer of the communication touched upon deserves consideration, although not such flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer...
...writer of the communication which we print in another column has touched on an important question, and one which the Class Day Committee is fortunately taking in hand. For a number of years past the exercises around the Tree on Class Day have been marred by spectacles which border closely on the disgraceful. The extent to which the struggles for the flowers have been carried may be well enough when there is no one in the question but men, but to the crowd of ladies who are gathered to watch the sport the sight cannot help becoming now and then...