Word: class-day
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...custom of the senior class to graduate in dress suits has been sanctioned by such long usage, yet it seems as if a departure from this custom would not be inadvisable. Some means of distinction necessarily should be made between the members of the graduating class and the other members of the university. Still, a cap and gown would not only prove as good a means of distinction but would also be much more in keeping with the occasion and its associations than the conventional dress suit. If there be interest enough, cannot the class-day committee take the matter...
...past to arrange that while the classes are engaged in the exercises around the tree the chimes of Christ church shall play "Fair Harvard." During the silence which follows the cheering, the sound of the chimes lends a significance to the hour which is highly impressive. One who has heard the strains of the grand old ode thus rendered, and has experienced the deep impression which is made upon all, cannot but wish that the custom should be made a university institution and thus give to each class-day an added significance as unique among collegiate graduating customs. We speak...
Armory Hall, Brattle square, was most beautifully decorated by Lee L. Powers, Boylston street, on Wednesday evening, the occasion being the first senior assembly. Mr. Powers is deservedly popular with the students, and already had many orders for class-day decoration and supply...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It has been the custom for undergraduates to grant the use of their rooms to seniors for class-day. So firmly has privilege been established by precedent, that it is now regarded by the graduating class almost as a right. There are, however, several men in the college buildings who are unwilling to conform to this custom. Such a man it has been my misfortune to meet. Of course the retention of a room may seem a small matter to him, but to myself it is far different. Indeed my whole spread depends upon...
...complaint made that a senior is unable to secure a certain room which he desires for Class-day revives a discussion which each year sees renewed. In the present case, while we cannot encourage so aggressive a method of reaching the desired end, we see an example of what without doubt is now causing more trouble than may appear. The day has been invariably marked ??? general courtesy upon the part of the underclassmen, and we are loth to think that in any case, tact and gentle-manly courtesy will not procure what is desired. The matter, however, in each case...