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...first plan, there would be a wreath around the old tree from four to seven feet from the ground; men would have to wear ordinary clothes and the seats would be limited to about 3400. The main objections that have been raised to this plan are: (1) the old space is too small both for satisfying the demand for tickets and for accommodating the contestants; (2) if the large majority of the class participate there will be too much of a crush; (3) on account of this crush the success of the scheme depends absolutely on the conduct...
Secondly, it was objected that "the dozen men immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers." This is a physical impossibility. The Class Day Committee propose to fasten on the Tree a wreath of flowers four feet in breadth. It is hard to see how a dozen men could carry off this amount of flowers, to say nothing of tearing them off the Tree. Moreover, there would be no object in carring off more than a reasonable number, for the simple reason that the men behind would not permit it, but would deprive their greedy...
...Senior class has assembled on Class Day under the present Liberty Tree, to perform the flower exercises. At first the comparatively small size of the graduating classes made it possible for them to execute a dance around the Tree, after which each man detached a flower from the wreath; but as the classes grew larger the dance had to be given up, and for the same reason it became more difficult to obtain the flowers. And so the scrimmage for the flowers came to take the place of the dance, and soon after the fifties the exercises were much...
...only recent innovation as to the position of the flowers, is the class number above the wreath, and I am told by graduates that even this is not wholly a new thing...
...class member,- these might easily be removed without destroying the essential value of the affair, which is nothing more than a good-natured, rough-and-tumble scrimmage. It would seem that the suggestion of the Class Day Committee to dispense with the number, and also to lower the wreath, would do away with all offensive roughness, and the necessity of forming large combinations in order to obtain the flowers...