Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been the custom in the past, it is earnestly hoped that it will be possible to take a band to New Haven for this year's game. In order to be able to take a band to the game, however, many more contributions are necessary. The estimated cost of transportation for a band of 40 pieces is in the neighborhood, of $500. This sum must be raised by undergraduate subscription and to this end contribution boxes will be placed at Memorial Hall, Leavitt and Peirce's, the Union, and the CRIMSON Building. So far only $50 has been collected...
...with regard to the near future and that other New Haven game: we know that winning from Princeton is an old Yale custom--a rule which has been proved by few exceptions since 1899. Of late years, too, the habit of losing on the following Saturday has developed. Yale's customs are stubborn things to uproot...
...before this project could be put into execution. The evening was very pleasant on the whole. The waiters removed the debris promptly and the costs were easily made up by omitting some of the luxuries from future menus. It is to be hoped that this time-honored and harmless custom will never suffer the fate of Bloody Monday. Such customs as this are too valuable in forming a man's character and broadening his point of view to be allowed to disappear...
...there is much to be admired. It is true that Mr. Browdy's "Midnight Supper" contains a conventional O. Henry opening and some unskillful traces of Mr. Hardy in its stilted stage directions ("Had there not been something peculiarly ingratiating about this man, I should have maintained my custom of refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than...
...every man's character that there should be some spiritual region in which he can do as he likes, some land of little things where he may be delivered from the tyranny of the long arm." This reflection may invite more appreciation in England, where tradition and time-honored custom have established a political and social inertia reasonably impervious to radical pressure, than in America, whose institutions are not similarly encrusted. However, herein lies a possible indication of our own proneness to talk and act nonsensically. College men especially are wont to search out the humorous elements in a serious...