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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first feeling on hearing it suggested that the Tree Exercises be given up is of instinctive opposition. That Harvard should have to relinquish an old custom even if grown degenerate, and further the location which has become associated with that custom, seems at first sight must be avoided at any cost. Consider, however, what to the college man of today is an old custom. To the majority it is simply one which ruled in their Freshman year, so shifting is the college community, and so soon are traditions formed. To call the actual exercises around last year's tree...
...order to facilitate the work of the committee in making definite arrangements. Tickets will be given only to those men who sign the blue books. The dinner held by the class of '99 last year was the largest ever held at Harvard, and in order to make the custom of holding a Sophomore dinner a permanent one it is only necessary that the 1900 dinner should be the same success. Therefore it is hoped that every member of the class will be present...
...probable that the schedule system will be in general much the same as last year. It is also probable that some advantage will be given to the teams that made a good showing last year in order so far as possible to make it a permanent custom for scrub teams to hold together from year to year...
...College team squad started practice yesterday afternoon with about twelve men, who have hitherto been with the 'Varsity. It is the intention to identify the College team more closely with the 'Varsity than has hitherto been the custom. The 'Varsity pitchers will be lent to the College nine, and the team will be shifted back and forth pretty freely...
...general feeling that during the last term members of the graduating class should in some manner be designated as such. Last year this same feeling was expressed in mass meeting by the class of '97 when it was decided to wear caps and gowns after the spring recess. This custom was found so inconvenient, however, that when the time came men soon got tired of conforming to it, and for this reason the '98 Class Day Committee decided that it would not be worth while to raise the question again this year...