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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The decision of the class of '82, forbidding the admission of freshmen to the tree on class day, meets the unanimous disapproval of '85. The day on which this privilege is enjoyed is the most important one of the year, and should be, as it is designed, one of the year, and should be, as it is designed, one of the common union of all-the last day of college association with the departing class. Why should this single opportunity to unite all in good fellowship, to dissipate any embitterments which may have arisen, to form...
...meeting of the senior class last evening, Mr. Manning in the chair and Mr. Wendell secretary pro tem., with the consent of the captain of the freshman, a motion was carried that unless the freshmen win one game with Yale they shall not be admitted to the tree on class day. Mr. Dean, captain of the senior crew, explained why his crew should not row, examinations being near, and the continued "illegal" delaying of the race, interfering with the chances of some of the crew's getting their degrees. Mr. Chalfant then explained the reasons for the delay in justification...
...Never give up the valuable virtues for muddled fuddled stultified fabulous pandomoniums. Try is the lever that moves the life and matter of the world. Mark the march of evolution the last six thousand years ever since the days of Adam and Eve playing behind an apple tree sowing leaves together to make an apron or the dens and caves in the earth for a habitation. The future of the past eclipsed by humanity to man the heaven of the mind. Shakespere divides greatness into three characters, first born great, second to have greatness thrust upon you and third...
...fence in the event of their failure. Our freshman nine has been laughed at, encouraged and implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct appeal to their own interest like this may perhaps affect them...
These notices were posted up on a tree in front of our old building. The freshmen were naturally "riled" at this insult, and for more than an hour on each of two consecutive days an indiscriminate mauling match was carried on. Both sides claimed the victory, but the classes were about evenly matched in the number of missing shirts and broken Derbys, not to mention heads. As far as your correspondent can see, the only persons benefitted by the rush were the hatters and haberdashers...