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...complaining has not been very extensive - that the practice of placing the numbers over the pulpit in chapel, to indicate the psalms and hymns, has been given up, or at least very much neglected. We grant that the matter is of slight importance, but still we think the custom a sufficiently valuable one to be continued, and certainly we can see no good reason for its discontinuance. To those, who take part in the services, the numbers are often useful...
...Failure on any one's part to comply with the requests made in the notices of the different secretaries of clubs and societies, not only inconveniences the photographer, but shows a disregard of the feelings and desires of others, and help to defeat the very object for which the custom of group photographs was established and is now maintained...
...college. Writing a part in itself may seem an irksome task, but it is not a thankless one. If the indifference in this matter, which seems to have taken hold of college men so strongly, could be dispelled, if the members of eighty-six would initiate the custom of having a likely competition for parts at commencement, there would be in promise for this year and for years to come exercises that would be representative of the college. While commencements heretofore have been very creditable to Harvard, it is still in the power of undergraduates to make future commencements much...
There is an old custom at the University of Pennsylvania, called the Cremation, that it is interesting to know and to remember as one of those college ceremonies that are rapidly dying out in our higher institutions of learning as they gradually advance nearer to the state of the ideal university. Although such progress works incalculable good, it has, I think, this one drawback; that it involves a loss of many customs that showed, if you will, a more boyish and consequently less properly developed state of feeling, but that still constituted in a great measure that part of college...
Many men, especially those new to our old and honored college customs, were disgusted at not having a holiday on Monday last. The reason for this seeming disrespect to the memory of the Father of his Country is easily explained. It is simply a natural consequence of that conservatism illustrated by compulsory prayers and the rising bell. When the college was founded there was no necessity for such a celebration, owing to the unfortunate fact that Washington was yet unknown. Therefore, as it became the custom not to observe the day, it has not been, and probably never will...