Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tree oration, open to Seniors only, will be held sometime in the afternoon of Class Day, but as yet no selection has been made of the Tree Orator. While the Tree Oration is being held the Alumni will form for the march to the Stadium, where the Ivy Oration will be delivered by R. S. Ogden '31. Other parts in the Stadium program include singing by the University Glee Club, presentation of the Class Banner to the Class of 1934, the singing of "Fair Harvard", and the Confetti Battle. In the evening there will be dancing in Memorial Hall from...
...American Peace Society. When the World War came, he toured the country urging pacifism. In New Haven, Yale students hooted and jeered him. At the Baltimore Academy of Music in April 1917 he was almost mobbed by rioters who sang: ''Hang Dave Jordan on a Sour Apple Tree!" After the U. S. entered the War, however, he made no more speeches. And ten years after the Baltimore incident he received a letter from one Carter G. Osburn, who said he had led the Baltimore mob: "No apology is possible for such an act. ... I was at the time 20 years...
...Saturday afternoon a Cambridge policeman discovered a raccoon sitting on the top of a tree in the Yard. Somewhat disturbed by the crowd which soon collected under his perch, the raccoon removed itself in haste to the top of the Hemenway gymnasium, where for a time it appeared quite safe...
Harvard Yard officers called the Animal Rescue League to rid them of the disturbing influence. Tree-Climbing experts arrived shortly and finally succeeded in climbing to a point where they were able to lasso the unfortunate raccoon, which was promptly carried off to the quarters of the Rescue League...
...proceedings will be broadcasted over a nation wide book up. It is possible to foretell the announcer's description-"the twenty-four great doric columns each of pure marble weighing fifty-three tons apiece, the two graves within, and the lone willow tree growing over them...". Then the speeches. "A leader of a great democracy, a statesman who steered the ship of state safely through troubled waters after the war, a great American." Then the Star Spangled Banner...