Word: customers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were entertained by several Yale graduates, Saturday night, in New York. The dinner was given as a compliment to Mr. Henry L. Higginson, who entertained the Harvard and Yale teams last year. It proved to be such an enjoyable affair that an effort will be made to establish the custom of holding annual dinners...
...That the custom has been neglected is due to one of two causes. Either officials have been indolent, or else individuals have monopolized what, in justice, belongs to the University. In either case, the cause is blameworthy. The custom should be preserved and we believe that, if the opinions of the members of the University could be definitely ascertained, they would be found unanimous in support of this...
What then is to be done? The room was devoted by the gymnasium authorities to this purpose in response to a student movement. The revival of the custom ought also to be a student movement. Any regulations by a body, not composed of students, would seem to us to be out of place. The matter is properly one of sentiment and not of regulation...
...entrusted to the students, there is certainly need of some decisive action. The maintenance of the custom should not be left to chance, but should be given into the hands of some definite person or committee. Otherwise, the temporary agitation in regard to the matter will soon expend itself without having done permanent good. It is apparently the duty of the managers of the different teams to attend to the matter, but if every senior class made some officer-the secretary for example-responsible for the proper preservation of the trophies and records of the year, the perpetuation...
...netted a large sum of money. This they used to buy the case in which are the trophy baseballs and to buy photographs of the teams. On the walls they placed tablets on which were to be put the records made from time to time in track athletics. The custom of having the photograph of each team placed in the room, together with a record of what it had done, was maintained for several years. Later the custom died out. Moreover, the flags which adorn the room have been neglected. They are rapidly rotting, and will soon be in shreds...