Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strenuous outbreak occurred. It had been the custom for students to offer excuse for absence from chapel. The tutors decided no longer to admit such excuses. This caused great indignation among the students, who met in a body and declared the rule "unconstitutional." Several windows were broken and several suspected students expelled. At this the three lower classes went to the President declaring that they would leave College. The Seniors applied for recommendation to another college. The Overseers of the College, however, held a meeting, and by confirming the action of the President and tutors and announcing their resolution...
...centuries passed schools slipped from the control of the Church, and benefit of clergy was no more. But no people cling to tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons...
...been the custom of the Alumni Association to have H. W. Jones '85 interview the Senior class every year in the interests of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. All members of the class of 1914 should remember that they will be alumni next year and that the one way in which all graduates are kept in touch with college affairs is through the weekly Alumni Bulletin, which is the official organ of the Harvard Alumni Association. This has the hearty endorsement of all the Senior class officers...
...been the custom of the Alumni Association to have H. W. Jones '85 interview the Senior class every year in the interests of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. All members of the class of 1914 should remember that they will be alumni next year and that the one way in which all graduates are kept in touch with college affairs is through the weekly Alumni Bulletin, which is the official organ of the Harvard Alumni Association. This has the hearty endorsement of all the Senior class officers...
...been the custom of the Alumni Association to have H. W. Jones '85 interview the Senior class every year in the interests of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. All members of the class of 1914 should remember that they will be alumni next year and that the one way in which all graduates are kept in touch with college affairs is through the weekly Alumni Bulletin, which is the official organ of the Harvard Alumni Association. This has the hearty endorsement of all the Senior class officers...