Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hollis Street.- Beerbohm Tree in his Repertoire...
...following plan has been suggested for the exercises about the Class Tree. It has been proposed that instead of the scrimmage, to which there seems to be so much objection, there should be a shower of flowers from the Tree upon the heads of the Seniors as they stand grouped about it. This would seem to be a pretty certain cheek upon all combinations and unnecessary disorder; and, on the other hand, the old flower tradition would be retained and the mementos prized as highly as ever...
...reply to a letter from the Class Day Committee suggesting changes that they were will to make, President Eliot has answered for the committee of the Corporation saying that he feels no doubt that an adjustment of the present difficulties about the Tree can be reached. He asks that the Class Day Committee put their suggestions in writing and in definite form. These suggestions were substantially what appeared in this morning's CRIMSON,- to lower the flowers, to wear citizens clothes, to provide against combinations; and besides these a definite plan of seats must be drawn...
...source of great relief and pleasure, after the excitement and wordy warfare of the past few days, to find that after all the "Tree" exercises are not in such imminent danger of being abolished as students were at first led to believe. The Class Day Committee was yesterday told that its last set of proposed changes will serve as a basis for an adjustment of the debated question; and that the position of the committee of the Corporation on the "scrimmage" has changed from what we were led to believe was their immovable opposition to an apparent readiness to agree...
...fifty per cent-the fellows who neither spread nor get more than one or two invitations to the spreads of their more fortunate class-mates. These men find Class Day just long enough. They take perhaps half a dozen relatives and friends to Sanders in the morning, to the Tree in the afternoon, and to Memorial or the Gymnasium in the evening. If a spread or two be included in the program, the day is completely and pleasantly field...