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...first place it was urged that "there would be an endless preliminary manoeuvering to get in the front rank." This, I think, could be prevented by the marshals as it has been in the past. It is true that the increased number of men who would take part in the scrimmage might necessitate some more stringent regulation than has heretofore existed. It might be necessary for a rope to be drawn in a large circle around the Tree and held by the marshals. The Seniors, as they march in, could be required to keep their position as the rope...
...think the class has received distinctly a wrong impression as to the intention and methods of the Corporation Committee. No body could have the interests of the College more at heart than the men on this committee, or could have treated our committee more courteously. Our committee, on the other hand, was somewhat to blame for not taking more notice of the objections to the character of the exercises at our first joint meeting. Such objections were made and were reported to the class through the CRIMSON. Since the objections discussed at this meeting were principally against the seats...
...Corporation put it to a vote of the Seniors, of the whole University, or of the graduates, I predict that each of these bodies will declare with practical unanimity against the total abolition of the scrimmage. Even if fastidiousness is not encouraged too much at Harvard today, I think most of us feel that the display of wholesome sentiment is encouraged too little. The Corporation, I am sure, will not use their authority to ride rough-shod over the wishes of the vast majority of those most concerned in this matter. They will not destroy that which we regard...
...last objection I think the suggestion in your editorial of Saturday's issue furnishes a complete rejoinder, viz, that the members of the class do consider their participation in said scrimmage compatible with their cultivation and their gentlemanliness. In this they apparently differ from the Corporation, but it can hardly be that that body intend to pronounce judgment on a difference of such a nature, and, on this ground, to issue a fiat regulating the conduct of the gentlemen who take exception to their opinion. If so, their action in the premises would be comparable to the evidence offered...
...courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some underhand slugging, "pasting" a man, as it is called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they are going "to lay for so and so! " What must the spectators think of Harvard students when they see one man "slug" another around the Tree on Class Day? The first thing they do is to hiss, as those of us who were at the last few Class Days well remember. Then they leave Cambridge with fine impressions of the Harvard...