Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and Mrs. Conant, following the custom inaugurated by President Lowell, will hold a reception Christmas Eve for students who are remaining in Cambridge during the Christmas holidays. The reception will be held at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, from 8 to 10 o'clock...
...following is a copy of the articles of the Constitution of the Senior class. The constitution was originally drawn up for the Class of 1930 and was ratified by them. Since that time it has been the custom for each class to vote on this constitution in order to ratify it. On the ballots for voting today and tomorrow will be a space reserved for marking "yes" or "no" on the question of the ratification of the Constitution...
President Conant gave a short informal speech last night at the New England Associations of Colleges and Secondary School's 45th annual meeting in the Georgian room of the Statler. It is the custom for all new presidents and headmasters to speak at the meeting which takes place in the year of their inauguration. Two other new presidents, President Bancroft Beatly of Simmons College, and President Hugh F. Baker of Massachusetts State College, and one new headmaster, Claude M. Fuess of Phillips Andover Academy, also spoke...
...surprised at the content of President Conant's dictum on the liquor situation in House dining halls. This much may be startling,--that the president has seen fit to address the undergraduate body directly on a matter of this sort; for in the past it has been the custom to hand over such rulings tacitly to underlings, to have them unobtrusively enforced, to make them "generally understood." But the prohibition itself is in the best of University Hall form. It is conservative, sober, and unexplained. To obviate confusion, the President has ruled that no undergraduate may bring liquor into...
...accordance with another custom, the Freshmen of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries furnished "Batts, Balls, and Foot Balls" for the use of the students. Throwing anything across the Yard, or playing football or "any other game" therein was forbidden...