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...cheering and to the singing of the Class Song no one surely can offer a reasonable objection. The scramble for the flowers is boyish nonsense, it may be said, and unworthy the dignity of Seniors. To a certain extent this charge is true; but is it so unbecoming to play the boy for a few moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men? The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AROUND THE TREE. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...analogy may perhaps be fairly established between the exercises at the tree and the Mayday festivities and the Christmas games of Merry Old England. Now, with these latter observances is associated a certain simplicity and heartiness symbolical of national traits. Their decadence, therefore, has not failed to call forth the lamentation of all good men to deplore the death of the healthy vitality and social sympathy which these institutions at once expressed and encouraged. The case is very much the same with the exercises in question. Can any ceremony be more beautiful than a merry physical rivalry, such as that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXERCISES AT THE TREE. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

Whatever a Senior may think as to the little benefit he is likely to receive from a certain recitation, or whatever his theory of voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

THIS can be called representation in a certain geographical sense, so to speak, but hardly in any rational sense, and has the effect of exaggerating and perpetuating those false issues which we now seek to avoid. The mere fact, however, that given sections of a class should hold caucus meetings has nothing in it foreign to the purest democracy, nor even that they aim at securing positions for their candidates among the class officers, provided that they secure their ends by presenting a strong ticket, and not by cracking a society whip over the heads of the recalcitrant. In point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...have printed a letter this week, entitled "Some Grievances," because it expresses the views of a certain class of students, and our own views to a certain extent. Every grievance, however, our correspondent should remember, is not so great when looked at calmly as it may at first appear. Raising the advertised price of rooms without giving notice is undoubtedly a high-handed measure, and although the requirement referred to in regard to the keys involves a principle perhaps, our correspondent will find, we think, that it involves but little expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1875 | See Source »