Word: customs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...desire to protest against the custom of marking up the Library books. I very seldom take out a book but I find it defaced by some would-be commentator; such highly aesthetic notes as "Good," "Admirable," "This is fine," are met on almost every page. The only historical precedent for such action I can think of is the appropriation by the schoolmen of the manuscripts of the classical authors for their own worthless scribblings. But then the schoolmen lived at a time when parchment was scarce and dear; now, when stationery is so cheap, the impropriety of any such mediaeval...
...indifference on the other having resulted in the abandonment of the project last year, it now remains for the Senior class of this year to decide whether they will awaken to a lively sense of the proprieties of the case, and by adopting the cap and gown revive a custom as beautiful as it is old, or by following in the path which the folly of a class of comparatively recent date has marked out, will still continue the wearing of a costume utterly inappropriate, and entirely devoid of all those historical associations which render the cap and gown...
...imagine, and if proper measures were taken the expense would be rather diminished. At Columbia College the wearing of gowns was for many years compulsory, but after the repeal of the law, some years ago, it was left optional with the students to wear them or not. The custom, however, was continued, and at present in the oratorical celebrations of the college and on Class Day they are almost universally worn by the class holding the celebration, and by the orators always. Also in other college affairs the men who have parts, and the marshals, committee-men, etc., are obliged...
...enough to keep it up. Is it possible that the indifference about backing up one's own class crew can exceed the present unconcern about club races? The serious opinion among boating-men is that the present system has proved a failure, and that a return to the former custom of matching class-crews will keep up the attention of men who pulled in their Freshman crew, and will awaken in others an interest in boating. The class system has this advantage over the clubs; a man will take more trouble to sustain the good reputation of his class crew...
GREAT indignation has been roused this week by the breaking up of what is called a "time-honored custom." This is, probably, one of those familiar cases which has two sides, and before coming to a conclusion we propose to look at it in more than one light. The facts are that considerable noise has been made lately when men were "running for the Pudding"; this noise has disturbed some of the occupants of the buildings in the Yard, and has disturbed the President in his office. He therefore summoned on Monday an officer of the Hasty Pudding Club...