Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present Committee's intended departure from a time honored custom is made without explanation. The men of the University are the ultimate judges of the best songs. But when two of 42 songs are tried, there is small opportunity for comparison and trial. A song has been known to be very successfully used when the Committee thought it the least likely to succeed of those selected for trial...
...Senior class has again decided to adopt class buttons; and however skeptical many Seniors may be as to the actual value of this custom, they should insure it a fair trial. Class buttons in the Senior year seem an unnatural way of bringing classmates together. After living for three years within the University and participating in its various activities, it is not likely that two men who have never before met should be induced by the sight of a button to become close friends. They may, however, be led to recognize each other as members of the same class...
After all is said, the success of this custom depends entirely upon the attitude which the class assumes toward it. It has been tried for two years, and we do not believe that it has met with phenomenal success. Since the present Senior class has declared itself in favor of continuing the custom, it must be because a large number feel that its possibilities have not been fully developed. If such is the case, the class of 1908 should enter very generally into the spirit of the thing, and give future classes good grounds either for adopting or rejecting class...
...doing something which should be a pleasure, and indeed the opportunity to aid in winning a class championship should be sufficient to bring out all the men who are fitted by experience or physique to play football. There is, however, another side to the question. It has become a custom in many athletic contests to give small tokens to winners, and in most cases the prizes are not coveted for themselves, but merely as reminders of a pleasant experience. These cups will also lend more dignity to the eleven best men on the team, who have sometimes, within the memory...
...good, carefully drawn, suggestive and appropriate. Some are purely humcrous, some satirical, as the "Suggestion for Gore Hall," "The Insignia Craze at Harvard," and "Why change your hatband every day?" The two last mentioned are especially appropriate as a protest against the growing love of wearing distinguishing insignia, a custom contrary to tradition except on Class Day. It would be absurd for us to allow this trend to lead to fraternity pins and grips which is its natural outcome. Some of the jokes are very good but are hardly equal to the longer prose pieces, especially "Lampy's Little Lampoonlets...