Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Already a low undertone of protest and complaint against the seven o'clock bell is being heard from the dwellers in the Yard. Communications and denunciations will soon appear in their annual abundance. The justification of this old custom is to be found in the fact that it is successful in calling forth words of execration and condemnation. The Senior requires something upon which to vent his discontent, and then it distracts his mind from harmful meditation on the probable results of the world war, or the possibilities of more comprehensive knowledge of the fourth dimension. As David Harum says...
Perhaps the "gentlemen higher up" find this a sufficient justification for the custom...
Contrary to its usual custom, the Hasty Pudding Club will run this year a play competition open to all undergraduates in the University. The author or authors of the winning play and music will be elected members of the club, or if they already are members, will be given suitable prizes...
There are a few undebatable reasons which show that the custom of secret practise is merely logical. Nearly everyone has attempted, usually unsuccessfully, to take down lecture notes with two or three friends discussing an interesting episode within hearing distance. In a similar way the players on the football field cannot get the maximum amount of help from the coaches, nor can they carry out the suggestions of the coaches properly when their attention is being diverted by the presence of observers on the side-lines. One of the greatest features of the Haughton system is the ultimate polish which...
...been the custom in previous years, the University Glee Club will sing at the Stadium exercises on Class Day afternoon, and again from the steps of Widener at 9 o'clock in the evening. The selections will be the regular pieces which the club has been using during the past year, the usual college songs, and "Fair Harvard...