Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ineligibility of the five Yale baseball players was declared last fall, there has been a steady growth of sentiment in favor of their re-instatement. Unprejudiced observers are convinced that the men disqualified were not guilty of any attempt to break the athletic rules. It had been a continued custom for some Yale men to play baseball for their board at the summer camp in question; like most athletes, they had not read the rules, and were ignorant of the fact that they contained a prohibition of this very thing. It is futile now to blame the committee...
...needlessly heavy burden, the undergraduate rebels without giving the matter any thought. To him it appears only that the Office is tampering with his proverbial freedom, forcing him to make a change in his standards--and his aversion to change is great, for he is a follower of custom...
...petition signed by 26 members of the Freshman class who competed in the interclass football series has been made to the Student Council, requesting that the custom of awarding numerals to the class football team winning the championship should not be abolished. The petition is the result of an action taken by the Student Council at its last meeting, when it was decided to award medals instead of class numerals...
Moving pictures of the Yale game will be the feature of the football mass meeting to be held in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. As has been the custom, the plays will be explained in detail by Coach P. D. Haughton '99, who will also give a short talk on football in the University. Among the other speakers of the evening will be Coach R. W. P. Brown '98, Captain J. R. Gilman '17, and former Captain E. W. Mahan '16, who will talk on the personal side of the games this year...
Along with the annual migration of Seniors to the Yard has come the custom of holding interdormitory smokers in the first floor rooms. This is an excellent tradition. By the time of its fourth year a class is so broken up into groups that an all-class smoker is hardly feasible. But geographical proximity and the associations of the Yard make open-house entertainments between dormitories both practicable and profitable. The aging undergraduate may cement at these functions acquaintances which now are of a merely speaking character, and may treasure them in his graduate life or find them sources...