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Perhaps one of the most curious accounts in the book is a long article on the "Burial of Mr. Football" in the year 1861, when the annual Sophomore-Freshman rush was forbidden by the Faculty. An excerpt from the account is printed: "Dearly Beloved: We have met together upon this mournful occasion to perform the sad office over one whose long and honored life was put to an end in a sudden and violent manner. Last year at this very time, this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance (slightly swollen, perhaps), and the elasticity of his movements...
...class election issue slumber until it is awakened by another such disgraceful exhibition as that of last Tuesday. The time to propose a remedy is before the painful recollection has died out of the minds of Harvard men, lest we again give occasion for Boston newspapers to seize gleefully upon the chance to hold "Harvard indifference" up before the public...
This meeting is open to members of the Union, who will be admitted upon showing their membership cards...
Responsibility for the split seems to rest entirely upon the shoulders of the capital group, for it was in that body that the majority was found to kill labor's resolution recognizing the right of collective bargaining. All along capital has said that if they could only sit down and talk it over with labor, everything would be all right. When the show-down came, it was capital that started the "scuttling" tactics...
...Student Council expressed itself in favor of mass meetings and organized cheering, but left the calling of those meetings to the cheer-leaders. The question of a song leader for the football games was left for the Executive Committee to act upon...