Word: customers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordance with the old custom, the University Foot-Ball team elected their captain for next year immediately after the Thanksgiving Day game last Thursday. The choice they made is a matter for congratulation to the university and must be flattering to the man himself in its reported unanimity. Mr. Holden well deserves the honor thus placed upon him, and we feel assured that he will carry out the duties of the position in an effective manner. Ever since he entered college Mr. Holden has taken an active interest in foot-ball and has shown himself to be well versed...
...however, is directed more particularly to the members of the Law School. They, many of them at least, live among us and enjoy all the privileges which are open to the members of the college, the only reason why they do not attend Chapel is without question because the custom has never been instituted. But now that the petty restrictions of compulsory attendance at Appleton Chapel have been rescinded, now that Appleton Chapel, no longer the scene of a school exercise, has become a University house of worship, now that every man in the University is as much interested that...
President Devens: Brethren, At our table the Commonwealth of Massachusetts stands rather as a host than as a guest; so that I shall follow the usual custom, even before announcing our chieftest guest, to give you - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the legitimate representative of the little colony which founded Harvard College. I shall respectfully invite Gov. Robinson to respond...
...fellow graduates with cordial thankfulness and fraternal regard. It is the record of history that in the earlier days when my predecessors in the gubernatorial office visited the college, they held all their conversations with the president for the time being in the Latin language. [Laughter.) This delightful custom has lately fallen into disuse and the present occasion marks its complete abandonment. [Laughter.] Indeed, the intercourse between the high officials at the present time is expressed in words quite intelligible and widely current and the honorary degrees of the great university have today, for the first time in her history...
...used "unless permitted by the President with the consent of parents and guardians and on good reason first given by a physician"? Or can any one conceive of the Bursar's frame of mind, if some of us with a love for antiquity were to revert to an ancient custom of our fathers and pay our term bills in kind instead of in cash? What bliss to see him enter "butter, cheese, fruit, vegetables, grain, oxen, cows, sheep," or even boots and shoes in the clean pages of his account book...