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...Class Day under the present Liberty Tree, to perform the flower exercises. At first the comparatively small size of the graduating classes made it possible for them to execute a dance around the Tree, after which each man detached a flower from the wreath; but as the classes grew larger the dance had to be given up, and for the same reason it became more difficult to obtain the flowers. And so the scrimmage for the flowers came to take the place of the dance, and soon after the fifties the exercises were much the same as they are today...
With the election of Sandys as treasurer of the Company, the royal hostility grew apace. At the very next election, when he forbade Sandy's re-election, his interference was repaid by the election of the Earl of Southampton. The king's deadly jealousy now found ready allies in Sir Thomas Smith and his friends in the Company hostile to Sandy and Southampton. When in 1621 the king summoned Parliament, the members of the Company belonging to that body succeeded in defeating his cherished plans...
Another close and hard-fought game was lost by Harvard on Saturday afternoon. The game was one of the most exciting in the history of football. Harvard forced the play in the first half, and scored 6 points, but in the second half, Pennsylvania grew steadily stronger, and finally, in the last five minutes of time, made a touchdown and goal which won the game...
...Grew 2nd, Beck Hall, after Tree exercises...
...University and thoroughly arouse the interest of the students in the games that are to come. The Harvard Nine outplayed Pennsylvania both in the field and at the bat, and, although it had the game practically in its hands after the first few innings, the team never grew careless but played a good, strong game throughout...