Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribute to Professor Langdell to sketches of the "Regina Bonarum" and John the Orange Man, these papers find their principle of unity in the delightful mingling of seriousness and humor with which they are treated. Mr. Batchelder is the true antiquarian. He delights in pursuing a word, a custom or a tradition to its origin and tracing its history as far as he can follow it. But, having done this he is not content to present the bare result in tabular form; he brings his scattered facts into relation with larger ideas and shows their bearing upon the movement...
AREN'T WE ALL?-Strictly English satire on the more obvious impossibilities of the marriage custom...
...choice of Hot Springs, although entailing certain difficulties, will at least result in the Pudding Show going to Washington to make its annual bow before the President. To this custom the Hot Springs advocates owe, in part, their success. For with as reliable a city as Washington (judged from Hasty Pudding standards) on the list, the club feels that the southern trip is sure to be successful. Other arguments that tended to sway the opposition were that Hot Springs is the converging point, during April, of many influential Middle Westerners, and that since some members of the Hasty Pudding have...
...bell was practically the only disturbance of slumber that the senior was forced to endure. He protested many times to this, but in vain. Finally he learned to ignore the bell, for it, at least, was regular, and a seemingly necessary evil. But, recently, many seniors have adopted the custom of yelling in concert at an average hour of midnight the one word "Reinhardt" across the Yard, and yelling it in as many keys and as loudly as possible. And, worst of all, men returning from dances at twelve and one o'clock, or sometimes later, have taken upon themselves...
...picture of the poor, friendless boy calling his own name at his own lighted window is one to be perpetuated by generations of Harvard men. To be sure, Harvard may be too indifferent to its wealth of traditions. But the average senior prefers sleep to an overindulgence in any custom whatsoever. If Reinhardt were put to bed at ten P. M. every night there are few who would miss...