Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present system of selecting all the Senior class officers by a test of popularity is a custom which should be classed as obsolete. The officers fall naturally into two groups--those which are purely honorary--the marshals for example, and those involving a certain amount of responsibility and work such as the poet, the odist, the secretaries and the various committees...
...Custom house officials are not the only men faced with difficult problems. The authorities of Somerville are at present considering a petition of Tufts College asking for the use of its tennis courts and golf links on Sunday afternoons between two and six o'clock. For in spite of last fall's referendum permitting professional sports on the Sabbath there still exists a relic of the Blue laws which forbids any athletics within 1000 feet of a church building...
Many subscribers to the CRIMSON have inquired as to the reason for discontinuing the custom of running bright and informative clippings from the Radcliffe Daily. After some delay during which various desks and mail boxes have been thoroughly ransacked in an effort to locate this publication, it has been discovered that the editorial board has made a change in policy...
...whether the Harvard plan is consciously British or not, the process of acclimating it to American custom and even to New England hauteur is not without anticipation of untold difficulty. In the matter of the British plan there was no tradition to buck. Oxford and Cambridge have concentrated their athletic relations to dual meets with each-other even since the inception of varsity athletics at the two universities. In the matter of the proposed Harvard plan there would be the necessary break-down of nearly a century of tradition. The Dartmouth and Holy Cross games have become a tradition strongly...
Among the archaisms that grow green each year in the kindly air of Harvard none is more strange than that curious one--the Commencement part. The custom of having a few of the leaders in the graduating class address the Commencement gathering on almost any subject, from What is Wrong with the World to May Four Years in College, is an ancient one, and used to bring out enthusiastic competition for the honor. But for the past few years there has been a reluctance of Seniors to say any more in the Commencement ceremonies than is necessary, and the invitations...