Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell addressed the members of the Junior class who gathered at the smoker in the Union last night on the question of Senior Dormitories, giving a brief history of the custom. Until 1910 a great deal of dissatisfaction arose every year about the dormitory question; but in that year Lothrop Withington '11 led the movement which resulted in the occupation of Stoughton, Hollis, Holworthy, and Thayer by members of the Senior class. Since that time the custom has been kept, and the rooms allotted by a class committee. Showers have been put in, and other improvements have been made...
Several graduates of the University have subscribed $100 for a beautiful silver cup to be awarded annually to the team winning the Freshman interdormitory hockey series. It is planned to follow the custom of the Henley trophy in inscribing on the cup every year the name of each member of the winning team...
According to the usual custom the hockey squad will stay together during the Christmas holidays, and will play several games during this time. The line-up of the team at present is as follows: Ford, g.; J. Humphries, p.; Scully, c.p.; W. Humphries, l.w.; Schoen, l.c.; Peacock (captain), r.c.; Cushman, r.w. The tentative schedule is as follows...
...under its present form, is submitting to the undergraduates the new constitution, which embodies three important changes; first, making the Council representative of the college as a whole by having it consist of seven seniors, five juniors, and three sophomores, instead of seven seniors only, as has been the custom at Yale heretofore. Second, the Council will take charge of holding the undergraduate elections, and extra-curriculum events, such as class receptions, etc., which duties have been discharged in the past by the Yale Daily News. The third provision is that the elections be held...
This service is exclusively for members of the Freshman class and is a custom of many years' standing. Since the erection of the Freshman dormitories it has assumed far greater importance, for, on account of the comparative isolation of their dormitories, 1919 men fail to realize--that they form an integral part of the University, and therefore should identify themselves with those interests which are maintained for the benefit of the entire College...