Word: whole
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second plan is to have flowers thrown from a platform concealed in the old tree. The objections that have been offered are: (1) "We are not a female seminary;" (2) the whole idea is strained and unnatural; (3) "it is the reverse of scrabbling pennies for muckers...
...exercises, then, would be something like this: The whole class would assemble as usual, march around the yard, and cheer the buildings. Then in the same order, march into the enclosure and around it. They would cheer the different classes, popular men and the ladies as usual. Then they would form a large ring around the enclosure, sing "Fair Harvard" and cheer things especially connected with the class. Then, at a signal from the First Marshal, the ring would break up and the men rush for the flowers...
...Tree exercises are one of the chief features of the chief day of our college course. Let every Senior, therefore, spend some time, even if it be only a few minutes, in weighing carefully the various plans suggested, and in trying to come to some definite conclusion on the whole matter. No one, unless his judicial faculties are abnormally developed, can make a reasoned decision concerning the best plan of Tree exercises on the spur of the moment in a class meeting. In a meeting of four hundred men there can not be much satisfactory discussion and little more than...
...think that the time has come when the whole college should unite in an endeavor to put a stop to such disturbances and to relieve the college of the scandal which they cause. We therefore promise to refrain from the use of explosives and firearms either in celebration of athletic victories or at any other time, and to do our utmost to discourage and prevent the use of such explosives during the remainder of our college course...
Subscriptions are being taken to pay the salary of a general secretary for the association. This office will greatly strengthen the whole work of the association, and it is hoped that the subscriptions may be readily filled...