Word: whole
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...many the enjoyment of an institution which they hold dear. The custom is sentimental; the behavior of the gentlemen is just as inelegant about the "Tree" as it is on the football field; but nevertheless should the Corporation put it to a vote of the Seniors, of the whole University, or of the graduates, I predict that each of these bodies will declare with practical unanimity against the total abolition of the scrimmage. Even if fastidiousness is not encouraged too much at Harvard today, I think most of us feel that the display of wholesome sentiment is encouraged too little...
...wholly unexpected announcement that the Corporation intends to end the old and honored Class Day custom of "scrimmaging" for the flowers about the "flower elm" will be received, by a very large part of the Senior class and of the whole undergraduate body, with the greatest astonishment and the most bitter feeling of opposition to the decision. It seems wholly unnecessary and unwarranted...
...reasons for opposing the abolishment of the "scrimmage" are many. Its use by many decades of Harvard classes and the many pleasant associations which have grown up with its development have established it as a custom dear to thousands of graduates and to almost the whole undergraduate body,- a custom which should not be ended unless objections which cannot be met are shown. If such objections are shown, however, mere sentimental reasons should not prolong its existence...
...such reasons, in the opinion of those who are most directly interested in the exercises, the Seniors, have not been shown. Without the "scrimmage," or some suitable substitute which has not been suggested, the Tree exercises as a whole would be entirely without point and not worth continuing. The first objection, that "dirty and offensive" football clothes are worn in the presence of ladies, will have more force when it is shown that the very same clothes are offensive when worn in the presence of ladies at public games of the football team. In neither case are the wearers...