Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a romantic side to the College it has manifested itself in those traditions which make Class Day what it is. The Tree Oration, the numerous Spreads, the Ivy Oration, the dancing, even the confetti battles in the Stadium have their antecedents in the Dark Ages of the College. The original tree was the "Liberty" or "Rebellion" tree which stood in front of Hollis and around which the riotous sophomores of "Rebelliad" notoriety circled in the light of the bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year...
...Take time to think it over, boys," said Constable Thompson as he delivered Ocie Wilson to the masked men. The masked men took Ocie Wilson into the woods with them and the next morning he was found there, hanging from a tree...
...Tree Exercises are held on the afternoon of Class...
...same time it was announced that Joseph Patrick Crosby '28 of Jamaica Plain will be the Tree Orator on Class Day. Charles Francis Fawsett Jr. '28 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was originally appointed to this office, but was compelled to give up the post because of unavoidable circumstances...
Birch into Mahogany. Many American hardwood trees have no particular commercial value. Herr Fritz von Behr, pioneer tree surgeon of Germany, is working with dye pot and surgical instruments on beeches, birches, maples in Maine to make them eligible for future furniture. He selects sound young trees, makes a pattern of holes in the trunks and roots, injects 75 to 100 gallons of a secret soluble aniline dye. For four days the tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves...