Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...globe showing two hemispheres connected by a cable. Below the globe is represented the American eagle, and on a shield which forms the background of the whole are, on one side, the shields of the four American universities, and on the other those of Oxford and Cambridge. A laurel wreath surrounds...
...flowers about the Tree; second, to wear ordinary street clothes instead of football suits; and, third, to reduce the seating capacity about the Tree from four thousand to three thousand seats. As a result of the first two changes the scrap was almost entirely done away with, since the wreath was so low, and the costumes so unsuitable for roughness, that the men in the first rows about the Tree had little difficulty in getting all the flowers...
...Cercle decided to have a silver membership medal struck. On the face of the medal will be five small shields, the centre one the shield of Harvard, the others representing France at different epochs. The reverse of the medal will bear the member's name in a wreath...
Graduate Manager N. W. Bingham has received the trophy won at the Boston College games. It has the monogram of Boston College in gold inside a wreath of myrtle on an antique oak background. Below this is a plate giving the place of competition, the names of the competitors and the times made. It will be placed in the Trophy Room tomorrow...
Although some of the objectionable details of the Class Day scrimmage are to be done away with, its essential features are to remain the same; for the whole Senior class is to scramble for one wreath of flowers at the same tree which has been used for this purpose since 1815. Indeed, the fact that the old 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...