Word: tree
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...After tree months of careful preparation by the 1919 Photography Committee, the Senior Album is now on the press, and will be one sale by Class Day. It contains 220 pages, 691 individual picture, and detailed "lives"--including war records of every member of the Senior class. The book is dedicated to the twenty men of 1919 who gave their lives in the war, and contains a special memorial section devoted especially to the photographs and military history of these men. There are also 64 group pictures of teams, boards, and activities, with appropriate articles...
...first, however, the Class Day ceremony was very simple, consisting of a dinner, an address, and the final fare well. As time passed, the celebrations became more elaborate. The dance around Rebellion Tree was started. Seniors began to entertain their friends with punch. Four years after the latter happening, the President found it necessary to convert the rejoicing into a "respectable entertainment." From then on the Yard was open to all friends of undergraduates. Ladies, young and old, were invited. It became customary to give spreads and there was much dancing in the Yard. The day was made doubly important...
Dancing around Rebellion,--now called 'Liberty' Tree continued. Each Senior plucked a sprig or flower from a wreath to keep as a memento of college life. With the growth of the University, however, the scramble for flowers took on the nature of a riot, and consequently, about thirty years ago, many of the practices of Class Day had to be radically changed...
Next month the Seniors will celebrate the first true commencement since that of June, 1916. Many of the old practices are happily,--and unfortunately done away with. The Seniors no longer dance around the Class Tree, the Ivy Orator has nothing to do with the planting of vines; the ugliest man in the class is no longer presented with a jack knife. We trust, however, that the spirit is much the same today in the University as it was in the College of a century...
...Tree Exercises, Beside Holden Chapel...