Word: tree
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General Pratt: the "eggs and toast" of the Holly Tree: and the nocturnal journeys to that Paradise whence Adam has not yet been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save, it may be, that metaphorical cutlass, the "11 o'clock law," - each and all of these we greet with renewed respect and affection, and then...
...soon we learn to discriminate between the honest maiden from the rural districts and that Cambridge girl who has not missed the "ring around the tree" for a dozen years. The Cambridge maiden has acquired a taste for college students as a Parisian for absinthe, and can be happy with anything from a sub-freshman to a Divinity student...
...Graduates can obtain yard tickets and Tree checks from Mr. Jones this afternoon in Harvard Hall, from 2 to 3 o'clock...
...persons, except undergraduates going in classes, will be allowed to enter the Tree exercises without tickets...
Wanted.- Two class day tree tickets. Apply at 14 Holworthy...