Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...same gentleman says: "With the sentiment," the tree has been used so many years, "I have no sympathy...
Permit me to reply to some of the opinions of the writer of the second latter in today's CRIMSON. This writer says: "I can see no reason why another tree should not be chosen, if the crowd which attends the exercises is to be as large as in past years." To this I reply that there is one most excellent reason for not choosing another tree, a reason, namely, of sentiment, purely and nobly of sentiment...
Since the reasons for holding the ex-exercises at the tree are purely of sentiment and association, to change the tree would be to render the exercises unreasonable and uncalled for. The exercises themselves should not be given up because they are "too rough," for they certainly are not too rough for those who enter them, since they enter voluntarily, not too rough for those who do not enter, because they don't, and not too rough for the spectators, as their enormous attendance proves...
...rate it will not be time for us to abolish the tree exercises for such reasons until we abolish football...
...remedy the present inconveniences of crowding at the tree, the number of tickets should be more limited and the number of exits increased...