Word: custom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...racing shells have been ordered by the navy of E. Waters and Son, the well-known builders of Troy, N. Y. Contrary to the usual custom, the model for the shell to be used by the university crew and that for the freshman crew are exactly similar. The freshman shell is to be ready March 1, while the university shell will not be finished until a month after that time. Each boat is to be furnished with the most improved appliances, and when finished will cost about $400. It is a noticeable fact in the history of Yale-Harvard races...
...become a well-established custom at Harvard to raise by general subscription large sums of money whenever they are required for the maintenance and welfare of some special department. So far this has been the case only with those departments whose workshop and laboratory is not the college library. Now it is the turn of those branches of learning-of philology, literature, philosophy, political economy, history, mathematics, and music-for the very existence of which the reading-room in Gore Hall is a necessity, to call upon Harvard's many and kind friends to come to the aid of their...
Today the care and responsibility of the CRIMSON for the next year is assumed by the Ninety board; according to the usual custom the senior board resigning from the paper after the mid years. Under the management of the Eighty-nine board, the CRIMSON has made decided progress, has been better than ever before; and it is with deep regret that we say farewell to the senior members, for their advice and experience will be sadly missed...
Today is the annual day of prayer for schools and colleges. At Yale there will be two special meetings, and according to custom no recitations are held on this day. Rev. Dr. Charles A. Parkhurst of New York will address all members of the University in Dwight Hall...
...been the custom in past years for instructors to ask for the blue-books to be used by students in the examinations. Much annoyance is caused both to students and instructor by non-compliance with this simple request. It is disagreeable for the instructor to be obliged to resort, for punishment of the offenders, to the expedients of school boy days; yet it is eminently proper that some mode of expressing displeasure of the student's action should be found. The most common way is loss of the first few minutes of the examination. But this mode of punishment makes...