Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only natural that this custom has not changed. We are a sport-loving people and need entertainment. We have already had a year of war with, unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state...
...past, Dr. Albert Parker Fitch '00, formerly President of the Andover Theological Seminary, has been the speaker at these Freshman meetings throughout the fall term, but this year marks a departure from the old custom of having a single speaker...
...conclusion of the CRIMSON'S volume for the collegiate year demands a short word of explanation. In its editorial columns throughout the year a wider range of topics has received attention than has been the custom of past years. In spite of such range the constant policy has been to interpret events from the view of the college man, and if not to interpret to discuss, and if not to discuss to question...
Contrary to their usual custom the various classes will not hold separate luncheons in their headquarters on Commencement Day, as it is planned to have all graduates returning to Cambridge join the large Alumni luncheon. This will be held in the Widener Library Quadrangle from 12 until 1.30 o'clock. It is open to all holders of University degrees, and to members of all University faculties, without charge. No ticket of admission is necessary...
...form of a simple class dinner represents an apparently unanimous view, so far as any expression of opinion has come to the attention of the Secretary. Perhaps under brighter skies we may some day recover this vanished celebration." For 1902 "this year it was proposed, as is the custom, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the class. This was to be carried on in very much the same way as had been done by other classes in the years just preceding. A general outline of what was to take place was sent to the Class in "Two Bits," a small...