Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There will be a meeting of the Senior class in Lower Massachusetts this evening at 7.20 o'clock. The question of Senior class buttons will be brought up for discussion and final action will be taken on the continuance of this custom tonight. A large meeting is very desirable...
...become the custom to start the cheering and singing in the Stadium at the Williams game. This afternoon a section will be reserved for holders of H. A. A. tickets and undergraduate holders of season tickets. The more men in this section today the better will be the results. It has been aptly suggested that, in the light of the new rule granting fifteen minutes intermission between the halves instead of ten, more singing should be done. It appears that plenty of time has been provided--the only other need is plenty...
...custom well rid of and marks the passing of another of certain few objectionable traditions which we inherited from the days when Harvard was a College, but which today, as a University built on broad and free lines, we have long since outgrown. Such things have their place in various undergraduate communities where the college as a wholly unique social species is uppermost in the minds of all, and where the atmosphere is best described by the very word "college." We congratulate the University and as undergraduates congratulate ourselves that this pernicious institution has been permanently laid on the shelf...
...University crew this year has been somewhat different from that of the other years that Coach Wray has had charge, inasmuch as the crew was chosen much earlier than before and more attention was paid to the training for the short preliminary races than has been the custom previously. This change of policy has worked well, and has seemed to benefit the crew rather than harm it. From last year's eight there were five veterans and the coxswain to start with as a nucleus. The problem at the beginning of the year was to fill the seats at stroke...
...been the custom for the past three years, the Class Day Spread has been arranged by the 1909 officers and promises to keep up the good record already established. One of the most delightful events of the whole year is the annual Junior Union Dance which with succeeding classes comes to be recognized more and more as an important social events of the College year...