Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to voice my unqualified approval of the proposal to rekindle the dormant attitude of the undergraduate body toward the coming contest with "Old Eli" by staging a football rally on the eve of the epic battle. It is my sincere hope that the revival of this traditional custom will restore the "Harvard Spirit" to the status of the glorious past and expose the much-vaunted "Harvard indifference" as a myth propounded by white-livered pseudo-cynics who consider disloyalty to their alma mater a mark of intellectual superiority...
...staged rally such as this can have any serious results either in inspiring a football team which will be four miles away in Belmont at the time, or in permanently demoralizing the dominion of indifference, it is disappointing that Harvard should succumb under pressure to the revival of a custom it had wisely disposed of. The attitude of undergraduates ion the last few years towards football cannot scathingly be termed indifferent; it has simply been a sane attitude which marked Harvard as being years ahead of other colleges in this respect...
...Andover-Exeter tradition and pull the team along the route in an open wagon. The marchers should sing Harvard songs, and so arrange themselves along the route as to form a continuous alley of rooters for the team. The throwing of flowers before the team's wagon (a custom in use at California institutions) might well be adopted. A delegation of Radcliffe girls as song and cheer leaders would lend a further touch of color to the scene. "Beat Yale" banners, pennants, and buttons should be everywhere...
...receiving students, President Conant is continuting a custom inaugurated several years ago by President Lowell. These receptions will give students their first opportunity to become acquainted with the President and his wife. Announcements of the receptions will appear in the CRIMSON each Saturday morning...
This is a departure from the usual Southern custom of quieta non movere in interracial matters. The notorious inequality of educational opportunities in the South is not realized by the Northerner. Nor is it generally comprehended this side the Mason-Dixon line that state institutions in the South, however liberal, cannot, with the present temper of feeling against the negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even...