Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Class Memorial Scholarship is the result of the desire on the part of the present Sophomore Class to continue the custom established by the Class of 1919 last year. The precedent of presenting the University with a gift at the end of the Freshman year was started by the Class of 1918, but the succeeding Class of 1919 was the first to make this gift in the form of a scholarship. The executive board of the Class of 1919 in deciding to give this scholarship last year was influenced by the desire to have the gift of such a nature...
...been a leader and worked for the honor of his class, and he must be the type of man which the class as a whole wishes to show to others as among its best products. In their choice this year's Seniors have not departed from the well-founded custom. The men so honored fulfilled the above requirements throughout their College course. They are fulfilling them now in that each one of them is enrolled in the service of the United States Government. It is peculiarly fitting that the Permanent leaders of the Class 19 should be Army or Navy...
...past it has been the custom of the University to appoint three exchange professors, one to go to the West, another to France, and the third to Germany. There has been, however, no exchange professor to Germany for several years. The University's representative to the Western colleges is appointed to give a course of lectures at each of several institutions in the West. Professor Schofield plans this year to visit Knox, Beloit, Carleton, Grinnell and Colorado Colleges, in the order named...
...University authorities are particularly desirous that the custom of the Senior Class rooming in the Yard shall not be discarded because of the war, and in consequence have announced that men will be released from room contracts if they enter national service before completing their College course. Every Junior, whether he intends to return to College next year or not, is therefore asked to file his application for rooms in the dormitories so that in any eventuality he may have accommodations reserved...
Conducting the morning prayers in the Faculty Room is a return to an earlier custom of the University. Holden Chapel, the first building designed solely for religious purposes at the University, was built in 1744, and morning prayers were held there until the building of Harvard Hall in 1765. For 50 years thereafter, services were held in Harvard Hall until the completion of University Hall in 1815. From 1815 to 1858, the present Faculty Room, a room of peculiar beauty and dignity, designed expressly for a chapel, was used for daily prayers and also for Sunday services. The pulpit...