Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Senior Dormitory Committee wishes to impress upon the Junior Class the fact that President Lowell is exceedingly desirous that the custom of Seniors living in the Yard be continued. It has been advised that the men should form in groups the largest of which may contain 12 men, with not more than two men in each room; for the larger groups are given preference in the allotment...
Fifteen Seniors and eight Juniors have been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In pre-war years it has been the custom to elect 22 Seniors in addition to the Junior eight in November, but this year, owing to the conditions arising from the military regime at the College, the first election was postponed until February. Because several men who were in line for election have not yet returned to College, the number of Seniors elected has been reduced from the customary 22. Men whose names are not upon the present list because they do not hold a degree...
...been the custom in the past to choose 22 men from the Senior Class and 8 Juniors. This year, however, the number of Seniors elected will probably be less than usual because of the lower average of scholarship...
...attend Chapel is at once a duty and an opportunity. When presence at Chapel was made voluntary by the University some years ago it was the tacit understanding that the honor and good judgment of the men would ensure their continuance of the custom. But recently neither of these virtues appear to have exercised a favorable influence upon the attendance. Much praise is due, however, to those few men who have either created or-continued the admirable habit of going to Chapel, especially at a time when the appeal of the bell has been regularly falling upon the deaf ears...
...found that it had been entered by thieves during the night and the small safe in which the petty cash was kept had been blown open. Owing to the fact that practically all of the money taken in during the day in tutition fees was, according to the custom, deposited in the bank before night, the thieves got only $378.67 in cash. In addition, the following Liberty Bonds were taken...