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After considerable discussion it was unanimously decided to abolish the custom of paying guarantees to visiting teams. By this arrangement Harvard saves seventy-five dollars a year...
...should Harvard not abolish this remaining barbarism, the "scrap" about the Tree? You may dignify it by the name of scrimmage, but it is really nothing more than a disorderly "scrap." It is a form of fighting more characteristic of a scuffle of "thugs" in a barroom than of an assembly of students about to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from the first centre of learning in America. Not a single manly quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some...
...rate it will not be time for us to abolish the tree exercises for such reasons until we abolish football...
...prevent a rush, and, last Tuesday night, Technology, no less than Harvard, ignored the efforts of certain papers to provoke a quarrel in "Newspaper Row." While we should have enjoyed, as much as the Harvard students, the excitement of a rush, we felt that, after the efforts made to abolish this contest, we would have been at least discourteous to be the first to revive this old custom...
There are a great many arguments in favor of the Christmas trip, and few if any upon which the Faculty can reasonably abolish its continuance. It affords a number of men a chance to make during the holidays, when there is no college work to be done, an extremely pleasant and not uninstructive journey which they could not make at their own expense...