Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Until last year, it had been the custom of the two Colleges to hold an annual concert in Jordan Hall the night before the Dartmouth football game. But on the revision of the football schedule, this concert had to be abandoned. It is hoped, however, that it will be found possible to invite Dartmouth to Boston next year...
...Dramatic Club sends out a call for plays for the coming spring production. Competitors are reminded that the last day to hand in manuscripts is February 10. This contest is mainly for one-act plays, since it has been the custom of the club in the past to present three short pieces in the spring. A wide range of treatment and subject is aimed at and authors who have short plays that are in any way unusual are urged to submit them. Really good one-act plays are acceptable and any of unusual merit will be given the best possible...
...result of a post card canvass of the Faculty and Senior class of Princeton recently made by the Daily Princetonian in an endeavor to discover the attitude towards "horsing" in the university, 55 percent are seen to favor abolishing the custom and 45 percent favor its retention. The exact count was 65 for and 79 against. The Faculty are more generally opposed to horsing than are the undergraduates...
Answers to the cards were not confined to "yes" and "no" and some interesting arguments may be quoted as throwing light upon a custom the defense of which nearly all declare is not to be based on "traditional" grounds. One professor thinks horsing out of accord with Princeton democracy: "Every man should stand in Princeton for what he is, unaffected by the question whether he has been here a year or a week." Another says...
Perry Davis Trafford '89, of New York City, has been appointed Marshal for Commencement, 1914. The selection is in accordance with the long-established custom of choosing the chief marshal from the class which will return on Commencement Day to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from College...