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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday the Class Day Committee respectfully submitted this plan to the Corporation committee, only to have it entirely rejected. It then became plain that from the first the Corporation had resolved upon the total abolishment of the time honored custom. Our class has been doubly aggrieved. Our opinions were asked for, and when offered were rejected without hesitation, and a custom which we all love is to be torn away from us. Further discussion of the objections of the Corporation is out of place, they have already been considered and, we believe, fairly...
Gentlemen, the blow does not fall upon the class of Ninety-seven alone; it falls upon the whole body of students; it falls upon the graduates who year after year have gathered about the old Tree and revived the memory of their college days. I have no sympathy with the sentimentality which defends a bad custom just because it is an old custom. I believe that the scrimmage about the Tree is not only an old custom but a good one. I believe that it can be and has been conducted in a manly, fair way, and that hundreds...
...this way alone the Seniors may show that they are in earnest, that the custom which is so lightly disposed of by the Corporation is of vital importance to them. It will arouse the graduates as no other protest could and it will bring the strongest pressure to bear upon the Corporation...
...duty of every man in College, and particularly of every Senior, to consider the question of abolishing the "scrimmage" very carefully and calmly. For every Senior in the postal card poll or in the class meeting, and probably every other undergraduate in mass meeting will be called upon to take some decided stand. That the question is the most important that undergraduates have had to consider this year is shown by the intense excitement created throughout the student body and in the very fact that the Corporation is willing to interpose such peremptory and in our opinion uncalled for interference...
...Valentine '98 has been appointed manager and, although the schedule of games has not been finally decided upon, he has already made arrangements with the various school and local nines in or near Boston...