Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems hardly necessary to impress Seniors with the importance of their meeting this evening. The question of giving up the old Tree Exercises is one to which the committee have given the most careful attention, and they are convinced that the changes they recommend are in the interests of the class. It is our earnest hope that whatever action is taken it will be after careful consideration and for the best...
...first place, we can further cut down the number of tickets. The "Tree" is distinctly a Senior affair, and, if the tickets are so limited that none but the guests of Seniors are present, there should be enough room...
...seems that they are unquestionably right. Granted that the Tree is a Senior affair, the ladies, and as many of them as possible, have always been the attractive feature and in fact the raison d'etre of the exercises, and the more their number is reduced the less successful such exercises will be. If their number is reduced the other classes will begin to lose interest in the affair, and Harvard can not afford to let slip her single annual chance of getting the whole body of undergraduates together. Moreover the graduates who attend the exercises add zest...
...communications from the Class Day Committee define clearly the attitude of the University officials towards the "Tree" exercises. They must be abandoned soon. '98 has a chance to be the head end of futurity or the tail-end of antiquity,- with the privilege of a choice. The two objections to the past exercises appear to be against the nature of the contest and the crowded condition of the enclosure...
...most prominent features,- in flowers high up, and a "free-for-all." A substitute was tried last year, and was admittedly not satisfactory. Any further attempt to remodel these exercises means simply getting farther and farther away from the "traditional" argument The ladies who came to see the Tree exercises would not in any case see the genuine article, but merely a revised and abridged edition with the characteristic feature left out. I understand the value of traditions to be in their entity; remnants are very apt to be farcical...