Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock--Tree exercises...
...tree-lined stretch of asphalt road...
...baggage trucks and lawn mowers and grass sprayers have a sway as complete as it is desultory. The sky is often blue it is June, the grass green, and the elms with full foliage fill the eye; but men in shirt sleeves, unabashed, stretch dreary socket cords from tree to tree and other men assemble, more or less slowly, the lowest common denominators of Class Day fountains and bandstands. Heranlean pounding from behind venerable Sever provokes cases of shaking palsy among pigeons and sparrows. Altogether, the atmosphere is neither collegiate nor festive. The former was of yesterday, the latter...
This is to be followed by the Class Poem by Pierpoint Stackpole '27 and the Class Ode by A. F. Keeley '27. In the afternoon at 3:30 o'clock the class will hold its Tree Exercises in front of Holden Chapel where D. S. Gibbs '27 will give the tree oration...
Governor Ritchie spoke chiefly in Dry districts to audiences whose grandfathers for the most part once sang lustily their intention of hanging Jefferson Davis (another famed state rights advocate) to a sour apple tree...