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...give any prizes? It is, to be sure, a matter of some importance, and we feel that the boat club ought to allow the winners trophies of the anniversary celebration. As our correspondent points out, this year of all years was hardly one in which to stop the custom of awarding prizes in the scratch races. Moreover, if the contestants entered the races under the assurance that prizes were to be given, the boat club has no right to withhold them. Let the boat club, then, settle this little difficulty by purchasing the cups immediately and awarding them, with appropriate...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The custom of the H. U. B. C. to give cups to the winners in the fall scratch races, seems to have been given up this year. It seems an especial pity that this should be so, because, as every one knows, the scratch races made up a part of the 250th anniversary celebration and so, to those who have no other trophy of the great anniversary, the cups would be of double value. Therefore I suggest that the H. U. B. C. get the cups at once and also that they have the cups - as prizes...
...first time, in the campaign torch-light procession in support of Lincoln. On that occasion, in order to have a designating cheer, the 'Rah!' was adopted. Probably it had been known in college before, much as the CRIMSON cheer is known here now. Perhaps it originated in the custom of cheering the name of every man in the class when his name was read in the old 'commencement part' lists. Well-known fellows got a full 'Hurrah!', but the cheering was perfunctory in the case of most men and naturally was abbreviated to 'rah!'" If this was the origin...
...custom of stamping in recitations whenever anything ridiculous or in any way peculiar occurs seems to become more and more prevalent every year. - Cornell...
...regard to the winter meetings, we are glad to see that the custom of past years has been retained in holding the feather-weight sparring on the first Ladies' Day. It had been proposed to transfer it to the first meeting, which would have brought all the sparring on one already over-crowded day, and also would have unjustly handicapped men who might wish to enter not only the feather-weight, but also the light-weight contests. A number of arguments have been urged, to be sure, against having any boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which...