Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...donor of the cups in making the presentation, emphasized the fact that they were given primarily to perpetuate the memory of O. D. Filley '06. It was largely due to him that the rowing system was reorganized and put on a solid basis. He also instituted the custom of interdormitory and gradedcrew rowing which indirectly helps to develop material for the University crew. Another object in instituting the cups was to interest in secondary rowing men not qualified to make the University or class crews. Mr. Fuller made it clear that every one was eligible to row in the dormitory...
...entertaining the members of the football squad. Occasions such as these, where graduates and undergraduates meet on a common footing as Harvard men, furnish some of the most delightful memories of a college career, and we hope for the sake of the various teams at least, that this pleasant custom will be continued...
Nearly three centuries have passed since the first festival of Thanksgiving was celebrated in early New England days. Since that time the custom of setting apart a day of general thanksgiving in the harvest season has spread from the shores of New England throughout the land until today it has become a thoroughly established national festival. Harvard College, more perhaps than any other similar institution, is distinctly associated with Thanksgiving Day, first because the earliest observances are to be found in and about Boston, and secondly because the first proclamation making a day of thanksgiving a national concern was drawn...
...Senior class proposes to take up the question of class buttons tonight. Ever since the custom was inaugurated by the class of 1905 about the middle of their last year, the succeeding classes have received it as an inheritance with more or less enthusiasm. No one has ever been able to show by any actual observance that Senior buttons fulfill in any appreciable measure the task which they are supposed to cope with of extending a man's acquaintance among his classmates and by so doing to encourage what variety of friendship is possible in the average class...
...method of tagging Seniors as opposed to underclassmen, no fault can be found with the custom. It would seen, however, that the wearing of caps and gowns in the spring, which besides tagging the Seniors, has other points in its favor, might be used in this connection, and if the energies used in encouraging both be directed entirely towards the caps and gowns so that the great majority of the class wear them in the spring, the buttons might well be given...