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...celebration will be held on Friday evening in honor of the crew, when a procession, headed by the crew and the band, will form in the Yard. As a fitting close to the celebration, there will probably be a bon fire on Holmes Field. The committee requests contributions of barrels and boxes...
...petition of the students that they be allowed to celebrate athletic victories with a bon-fire on Holmes Field has been granted. President Eliot and the committee of members from the faculty have assented to the plan proposed by the students as an experiment. There is no doubt that they are somewhat skeptical concerning the success of the experiment, but by their action in granting the petition they have expressed themselves as willing to be convinced. The burden of proof of course rests now wholly upon us students, and the great opportunity for showing conclusively that we can celebrate...
This is the most important consideration before us, as we have said. The other and lesser one is that unless the proposed plan of celebrating is a success, our celebrations in future will be greatly restricted; we shall have to give up having a bon-fire and we may have to give up demonstrations of any kind in the Yard. The result of this would be that the new and thoroughly praiseworthy spirit of enthusiasm would be quenched, and we should probably return to the wretched indifference from which we have now cut loose...
...feel that the form of celebration most prized by the students and most easily controlled is a bon-fire, and we honestly believe that Holmes Field is the best place for a fire because a centralized celebration is more easily controlled. We therefore request, on behalf of the students of the University, that we be allowed to have a bon-fire, of proper materials, after an athletic victory, on Holmes Field...
...eighth number of the Lampoon comes out today with a very effective centre page by Hazeltine '99 called "Harvard Indifference." It represents the bon-fire on Holmes Field with the students marching around the track. There is also a good picture by Johnston apropos of the H. A. A. officials taking up all the room on Holmes Field to the great discomfort of the lookers on. The rest of the paper is equally interesting...