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...tree is to be kept is, to the great majority of Harvard men, doubtless the most agreeable thing in the outcome of the whole affair. To hold the scrimmage about this particular tree is one of the most generally recognized traditions connected with the University, and until some valid reason is advanced showing why the exercises at this tree are dangerous or out of place, they will mean more to the average Harvard man if held where they have been held for the last eighty years...
...suggested during the late discussion of the "Tree" exercises that none of Harvard's few old customs should be disturbed and that her old traditions should be preserved as far as possible, unless real valid objection to them or some unbecoming fault could be shown...
...elderly men. These people undoubtedly offended, not from design but from ignorance of our customs. To loudly stamp under such circumstances seems to me extremely discourteous and totally unworthy of Harvard men. The custom is, at best, a rather childish one and I fail to see any valid reason for its continuance...
...Objections to a third term are not valid.- (1) Absolutely no fear now of monarchical rule or dictatorship.- (a) We have a very small and scattered army.- (2) Washington did not refuse a third term chiefly on political grounds.- (a) Though he did have some fear that monarchical rule might be possible, yet his reasons for refusing were mainly personal: McMaster, II, ch. IX.- (x) Was in bad health at the end of second term, and died before third term would have ended: No. Am. Rev., CXXX, 117.- (y) He was no longer "the idol of the people": Ibid...
...that strict accuracy in marking is an utter impossibility? Instructors are not gods, but men; that is, beings susceptible to over-work, weariness, haste. Injustice must occasionally be done by them; a thousand stern supervisors could not prevent that. Hence, even admitting Junior's "several cases" to be valid (I, for one, do not admit it), he has yet to show that they are more than the merely unavoidable ones. Finally, Junior, is in error to anticipate the careful students will at all believe him. An anonymous contribution carries with it no higher authority than its logic and Junior...