The other point which the writer of the communication touched upon deserves consideration, although not such flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer says, irreparable from such a struggle, but the affair must not degenerate into a free fight.
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A Festivus for the Rest of Us
