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...students expressed it as their opinion that one of the best methods of celebrating was by having a bonfire on Holmes Field. No decision was reached and after the conference the students voted to present a petition to President Eliot requesting that they be allowed to build a bon-fire on Holmes Field after an athletic victory. The petition will probably be presented to the Faculty at its next meeting, when it will be acted upon...
...gave him a good cheer. The statue of John Harvard, covered this time with a bright crimson robe, was cheered, and the band played Fair Harvard. The procession marched on up North Avenue to the tune of "Yale Men Say," "Marching Through Georgia," and that ditty which wishes Yale bon voyage. Professor Hart was on his door step to meet the eleven. He got up on the coach with the eleven, and supported by the radiant Cumnock, made a short speech. He was glad the eleven had won because they had worked so hard and because Yale had worked...
...freshmen celebrated their victory over Yale '92. last evening. the class hired a wagon and dragged the team amid a blaze of fire works to Jarvis where they built a huge bon-fire. They heartily cheered the team, the upper classes and themselves and appeared to enjoy their victory in a fighting manner...
...element of betting is left out, can surely do no harm. If the game is won, is it not natural for the victors to celebrate their victory? What harm can be done by the discharge of a few fireworks, rockets and bombs, or the building of a bon-fire-in a judiciously selected place? Of course we do not mean to countenance wanton destruction or endangering of property, but we cannot believe that a mild celebration is out of place or deleterious to the healthful tone of college spirit. The president speaks of the "trickery condoned by a public opinion...
Later in the evening the roughs ran the bon-fire and threatened to rush the students off Jarvis Field. If the reign of the Cambridge roughs has begun, I congratulate myself that this is my last year at college. One recalls with regret the days when the policing of the yard was under the supervision of the class of '85, when although the mucker was not excluded from the yard, rough element was suppressed and kept quiet...