Word: tree
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order of things prevails. An order of things under which waiters are kept in line from twenty to forty-five minutes while some mysterious cook below stairs fills the orders. Meanwhile at the tables men sit and munch bread, or losing all patience, adjourn to the Holly Tree...
...from. It has many doors, leading into politics, commerce, and the ministry even. It is the art or subject matter of science, or of several sciences. It is the art of persuasion and of advising. As a science, it is not an accident. It is the deadwood in the tree of life, without which the tree could not stand. The study of history is necessary for that of law, because one cannot understand the present without a knowledge of the past...
...exercises was inaugurated. As soon as the morning programme was ended, the class committee placed a band in front of Stoughton, and as soon as the fair maidens could finish their ice cream and lemonade they were surprised by being invited to go down and dance about the tree. The band which had been practicing Fair Harvard (two years old) started up, also surprised, and began a series of quadrilles and waltzes, which they continued until dark. Toward evening, the seniors for the first time gathered about the old tree and began a wild quadrille of their own, in which...
...night, at some hotel in Boston. Class Day was the last day of the term. The vacation of six weeks commenced at once, and Commencement came immediately after vacation. There had gradually grown up, however, by the side of Valedictory Day a new custom of dancing around the Liberty Tree, (the present class tree). As soon as dinner was over, all the undergraduates began to assemble around the tree and in the back rooms of Hollis and Stoughton. The seniors provided punch in a barrel, and brandy and water in pails, which were placed at the foot of the tree...
There is in California a large tree named "Harvard." An admirer of Yale seeing this thought Yale should be represented, and a tree fifteen feet in diameter and two hundred and eighty feet high was named "Yale" at her request...