Word: tree
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reasons, as I understand it, why the Corporation wish to make a change in the Tree Exercises are these: First, because the present site is overcrowded, and secondly, because the use of football suits and the violence of the scrimmage are offensive to the ladies present. Now it seems to me that both of these difficulties can be obviated...
There are some points which do not seem to me to have been explained, either by the Class Day Committee or by your editorial, and they are, the reasons of the Corporation for wanting us to leave the old Tree and for not wanting a scrap. As I have talked over this matter a number of times with a member of the Corporation, perhaps I can express their views. In the first place they considered the scrap a brutal proceeding, one that was thoroughly inappropriate for Class Day which is a fete day when there are a crowd of ladies...
...Delta offers a number of advantages. First, as a place for holding the afternoon exercises, it is approved by the President and the Corporation; second, it affords a seating capacity of one thousand seats more than the space about the Tree; third, the arrangement of the seats admits of larger entrances and exits, and thereby reduces the danger in case of a panic; fourth, more room within the enolosure made by the seats is secured to the graduates and undergraduates than is possible about the Tree; fifth, the John Harvard statue forms an appropriate centre about which the Seniors...
...hope of the Class Day Committee that the programme they offer this morning, if not generally approved, will at least have the effect of making Seniors consider the questions which a move from the old Tree enclosure entail, and be prepared to assist them with suggestions in the Communication column of the CRIMSON, and at the class meeting Friday evening. As the committee state, the first location which presents itself as a substitute, is the quadrangle back of University, and their experience has been that only when actually investigated are its disadvantages evident. They have also found that few realize...
...does not wish to move, it must accept the conditions which governed the exercises last year. In other words, it can look forward to no better celebration than that which last year caused considerable disappointment to many spectators, and much discomfort to all concerned. Few who were at the Tree last year and afterwards discussed the exercises will dispute these statements, and the most ardent supporters of the old regime would hardly like the same to be said about their exercises. The issue then is plain. Either '98 must decide to move and accept the possiblilities for improvement, or submit...