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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...final discussion of the "Tree" matter. We previously understood that their chief objection was in regard to seats, but we now find that they have taken a decided stand against any form of scrimmage whatever. In this they are unanimous, and believe that the Corporation as a whole fully back them up in all their ideas. They object to a scrimmage, first, because football clothes, which are dirty and offensive, are necessarily worn in the presence of refined ladies; second, because if football clothes were not worn, such weaker garments as were used would be stripped off; third, because...
...without success. We have said we earnestly believe that the majority of the class desire to keep the Tree exercises as they are, but the committee of the Corporation believe that not even a petition signed by a large majority of the class would affect the decision of the whole Corporation. We were willing to grant every possible compromise in the way of lowering the wreath or doing away with the '97 emblem, but this did not meet the vital point of the scrimmage. In short, we offered every possible alternative which we thought could be offered without destroying...
Altnough the matter seems apparently decided, it still awaits the condemnation of the whole Corporation...
...impossible to meet the argument on the ground of strict rights. But, from a practica point of view, that argument insists too strictly on private rights. It is better for the college as a whole that there should be an infirmary. Moreover, the thought that fellow students are sick and in suffering, and lack the necessary comforts and treatment should be intolerable to every college man. For those men who do not feel the bonds and obligations of a common life and common fellowship in a seat of learning the gates are closed on the fulness and largeness of life...
...might be advisable to obtain the consent of the student body by poll. The position of future students would then be no worse than that of a new generation which finds itself bound by the decisions of the judges of a previous generation, and the taxation of the whole for the part would be no more unjust than in the state support of hospitals...