Word: custom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...accordance with the usual custom, the University Observatory will be open to all members of the Senior class this evening from 8 to 10 o'clock. The privilege will also extend through tomorrow and Saturday evenings...
...annual dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be held at the Hotel Lenox this evening at 7 o'clock. Following out the custom instituted last year, delegates from Yale and from the University of Pennsylvania will be present. Mr. W. C. Lane '81 and A. A. Ballantine '04 will represent the graduates, F. Scheuck '09 will act as toastmaster, and P. G. Clapp '09 will give several piano selections. The speakers will be J. T. Addison '09, F. H. Cooke '10, orator, E. T. E. Hunt '10, poet, H. von Kaltenborn '09, H. E. Porter...
...unfortunate that two University teams are playing at the same time on Soldiers Field this afternoon, for we should like to see the usual supporters of the baseball team at the lacrosse match with Columbia. Of recent years it has become the custom to speak rather disparagingly of lacrosse at Harvard, and to designate the members of the squad by an amusing but not particularly delicate title. It is hard to understand why this feeling exists at Cambridge, but it undoubtedly does exist, and it can only be done away with by the good record and the personnel...
Last fall at a meeting of the Senior class it was unanimously voted that the old custom of wearing caps and gowns after May 1 be continued, and today it is for the members to carry out their resolutions with the same unanimity. If only a few are able to conquer their self-consciousness and sally forth arrayed in their academic costumes, the reason for the custom will disappear. The only way to carry out the tradition properly is for every man to consider it an honor to be thus distinguished from the rest of the College. If this...
...years ago, at the death of a popular and prominent undergraduate, a memorial service in his memory was held in Appleton Chapel at the regular hour of morning prayers. this simple ceremony seemed so fitting that we cannot understand why the custom has not been continued. The recent death of another well-known member of the University leads us to reprint and editorial printed in the CRIMSON at that time, as best expressing the feelings of the undergraduates...