Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SENIORS who are spreading in any degree, or have need of camp chairs or extra decorations of evergreen, laurel and flowers for their rooms, will be wise to consult with Lee L. Powers of 32 Boylston street, Cambridge, and 406 Boylston street, Boston, and give him their orders, as he has been for ten years decorator for the Class Day Committee, each year successively. See him at once...
...history of the class, and the ivy oration, although the most recent addition to the custom of the day, is the gem of the day. This position grew out of the old custom that when a president went out of office the class of that year should plant an evergreen to his memory and sometimes an ivy was substituted. While the planting went on it was the custom for the ivy orator to recite a humorous and satirical oration in which the follies and peculiarities of the class and of the college faculty were lightly touched upon. The custom...