Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been the custom in the past few years the weekly meeting of the Divinity Club on the Friday before the recess will take the form of a special Christmas service. This evening at 8 o'clock D. F. Mowery of the Andover Theological School will preach the Christmas sermon. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...going into law, or medicine, realize, even while they are at college, that there are restrictions placed upon them by custom, if not by law, which require preparation in a very special way. This is in every way of benefit to the community, I admit, but he who goes into the profession of teaching goes into it as he himself sees fit. He studies what is of interest to him, and he teaches this when he gets out into the world. He is free, in a sense that no other professional man is. If he wishes to go into public...
Years ago these vacation trips were an annual event, and then for a long period they were forbidden by the Faculty. Two years ago the Faculty was persuaded to allow a resumption of the custom. Tradition says that i the early days the undergraduates who constituted the clubs were not always as careful as they might have been in their observance of the proprieties, and in consequence the Western graduates were forced to ask that no more visits be allowed. That conditions have greatly changed since that time, the success of the 1907 trip is sufficient proof...
...custom was started of observing at the regular Appleton Chapel services on November 29 the anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. Evidently the usage did not long continue, for such a service has not been held within the memory of the present College generation. The tercentenary celebration two years ago brought the life and services of the great benefactor before the public as well as the University in most complete fashion, but that too will soon have passed beyond any but occasional recollection...
...Park Hotel, Auburndale, at 5.45 o'clock last night, after leaving New Haven on the noon train. Apart from injuries, all the men are in good condition. The squad will come to Cambridge in automobiles this morning, and will hold a light practice in the Stadium, contrary to the custom of past years. The team will not practice this afternoon...