Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...custom has gone to smash this morning: it is hereby annihilated. In announcing the CRIMSON scoreboard in the Living Room of the Union Saturday afternoon, not a word is printed to indicate that none but members of the Union will be admitted. There will probably be a hundred non-members apply for admission and plead that nothing has been said to warn them. Then, let this be a warning to them. Hereafter, only members of the Union will be admitted to its rooms, except when special notice to the contrary has been given. This is as it should...
According to previous custom Professor Copeland will give a series of readings to Union members this year. The following dates have been determined upon for the readings: December 17, January 21, February 11, March 4, and April...
...custom for the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa to invite graduate members of other chapters residing in the University to attend the weekly dinners held in Memorial Hall. In order that this plan may be carried out this year, it is asked that any members of the society from chapters other than the Alpha of Massachusetts will send at the earliest possible date their names and college addresses to J. V. Fuller '14, 29 Holyoke street...
...accommodation which indirectly redounds to its own advantage in their increased efficiency in later years. The institution at Cambridge is a large one a 'university' more truly than we are apt to remember, and the misconception of Harvard athletics which is most common arises from ignorance of the custom whereby nearly every undergraduate 'does something' in the way of regular exercise. This places a premium on the use of a gymnasium that is more than ordinary. Almost alone of the big universities of the country, Harvard's gymnasium is inadequate. Syracuse, Princeton, and Dartmouth men enjoy the newest apparatus, ventilation...
...which an attempt was made to perfect the new formations. They look well in theory, but it is of course difficult to tell just how they will actually work until they are tried out in a game. The practice this afternoon will probably also be light, as is the custom the day before a game...