Word: custom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last paragraph of the report deserves especial attention. Complaint is made that the old custom of each man at the training tables paying what his board had previously cost him, has for some unknown reason been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed...
...made his charge according to the schedule of prices arranged by the medical society. at the rate of $10 per hour for forty-eight hours, presented his bill of $480 to the student. The foot-ball association assumed the indebtedness and paid the bill, as it is the custom of the associations to pay for the medical attendance upon the teams. Hence the amount expended for medical attendance this year is very large...
Tomorrow will be a holiday in all departments of the University and according to custom there will be no issue of the CRIMSON until Saturday morning...
...have a suggestion to make to the senior class. It has always been the custom for the seniors to hold a class dinner just after Thanksgiving. Would it not be well for the dinner committee to set the date for the dinner now, so that the rest of the class can regulate their engagements accordingly? Besides, if a blue-book were placed at Leavitt's or Bartlett's immediately, the committee would know how many to provide for and would not have to rush about at the last minute to find out who intends to be present and who does...
...annual contests between the sophomores and freshmen, in which all of both classes took part. They were always held on Bloody Monday night on the Delta, where Memorial Hall now stands. They were abolished many years ago and survive now only in the mild form of rushes. A similar custom prevailed at Yale between 1840 and 1858, the games being played on the City Green...