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...day fixed on for the foot-ball match between Harvard and McGill University...
...respectfully submit to the authorities that the practice of putting tarred bands around the trees is demoralizing. Three Seniors wasted a whole afternoon, the other day, in betting on the order in which the different bugs would get above...
...first number of this year's Magenta it was asserted, in an article descriptive of last Class-Day, that the interest in Class-Day was slowly dying out, and that something must be done to renew it, or we should soon see the annual festival collapse altogether. Now, it behooveth us to devise at once some means of averting any such collapse; for it would be a misfortune indeed to be deprived of our only gala-day, or to have it still observed, but with its glory passed and its continuance a bore...
Last Class-Day was particularly afflicted by circumstances which will probably not be repeated. The weather was the worst for the occasion that we have had for several years, and the Yard was in a pitiable condition. But the canker-worms will probably not have another chance to revel among our elm-leaves; and the graduating class would certainly be ready and willing to meet the expense of having the streets in the vicinity of the Yard thoroughly watered, - a suggestion which was made last year, but was not acted on. This would insure us against being again overwhelmed with...
...much for externals. The chief reason for a decline of the interest felt in Class-Day may be found in the great increase of our classes. While the classes were one third or one half the size they are now, Seniors, with a few exceptions, could invite nearly all their friends in the vicinity to come and enjoy all the Class-Day exercises. Nowadays, with eight tickets to the Chapel and five to the tree, very few men can invite a large share of their acquaintance to these the most interesting parts of the programme of the day...