Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rigidly conventionalized or humbly quiescent, it is decidedly refreshing to discover an opinion that is neither. Your Saturday correspondent's communication on "Bear at Class Meetings" presents an issue, which, even after the CRIMSON's slaughtering funfest remains for our solution. To me that has always seemed a tyrannical custom which has imposed the use of beer at all class banquets or smokers. My interpretation of the purpose of a class gathering may be unfounded but I hold it to be true that such functions should be representative of the best opinion in the class. As long as some...
...Dartmouth has a very pretty custom at this season of the year. There is a day or more set aside on which the whole college repairs to the country to indulge in the winter sports. We might well adopt this as a Senior custom, and fix a time, for instance, Washington's birthday, on which as many Seniors as cared might go in a body to the foothills of New Hampshire and there regale themselves with snow-showing and other winter delights. It would perhaps be possible to devise even other forms of heart-warming, rustic entertainment for this occasion...
...Junior class held a smoker in the Living Room of the Union last evening for the discussion of class problems. President Lowell spoke on the question of Senior Dormitories, giving a brief history of the custom. Before 1911 the Yard dormitories were inhabited by members of various classes, all intermingled. Often a member of a class lived in an entry in which there were none of his classmates and the unity of all classes was thus seriously impaired. L. Withington '11 led the movement which resulted in the occupation of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer by members of the Senior...
...Dramatic Club is in need of plays for the coming spring production. The competition will close on Thursday, February 4, and all manuscripts must be handed in to H. S. Ballou '15 before 6 o'clock on that day. Although it has been the custom of past years to produce only one-act plays in the spring, longer plays are also solicited. In case the short plays submitted are not up to standard the club may depart from its usage and stage a play lasting two or two and a half hours. The competition will be judged by Professor George...
Whatever may be the value of New Year resolutions, custom decrees that on January first we start the new-born era with a more profound wisdom learned from the experience of bygone years. With all the nation it is time to take stock. To the college man, however, an even more significant date on the calendar is the mid-year period of the college session...