Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...executive board of 1919, after a complete discussion of the matter last spring, determined to continue the precedent set by the present Junior Class of making a gift to the University. It was decided that there were too few material gifts which would be suitable to continue this custom for many years, so that when a scholarship was suggested the executive board decided upon this plan as the wisest. It felt that it would thus establish a precedent in the power of succeeding classes to continue, and which would at the same time do some definite good...
Reverting to its custom of former years, Pennsylvania had little difficulty in defeating Cornell 23 to 3 yesterday. Shiverick secured Cornell's only points by a goal from the field in the opening period. The game was a punting duel between the two great kickers, Shiverick and Berry, and the latter easily out-punted his opponent. Miller, at right end for Pennsylvania, was the star of the game...
...next Monday, December 4, when the Arena will be ready for the squad. The opening of the Arena ten days earlier than usual this year has made it possible to do away with the practice on the stone court in back of the Hemenway Gymnasium, which has been the custom in the past...
...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when historians found the following entry of his birth in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of "Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...
...many years it has been the custom for Harvard to oppose Brown in their annual game with the second or third football team. A glance at the scores of recent games will show that Brown has had teams admittedly inferior to Harvard's first teams, yet this year it must be allowed that our opponents were at least the equal of our best team. The fact that Harvard's first team might have won last Saturday's game is not the essential reason for placing our strongest team on the field against Brown. The present practice of the Harvard coaches...