Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...accordance with the custom inaugurated last July, a second Harvard dinner in London is being planned for next summer, which it is hoped all Harvard graduates and undergraduates, both those whose homes are in London and those who are merely travelling in England during the summer, will be able to attend. A resolution was passed at the previous dinner, authorizing Mr. William Phillips '00, Secretary of the American Embassy, London, to select a graduate or undergraduate of Harvard University likely to be in London next year and advise him as to a proper date for a Harvard dinner, in London...
This year, as has been the custom for a number of years, a reception for the entire Freshman class will be held in Brooks House. It will be held Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock and all members of 1916 will be made welcome. Each man will be tagged with his name and will be expected to make as many acquaintances with his classmates as possible. Men prominent in the various activities of College life will speak to the new students, presenting brief surveys of the literary, scholastic, and athletic phases of the University...
This year, as has been the custom for a number of years, a reception for the entire Freshman class will be held in Brooks House. It will be held Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock and all members of 1916 will be made welcome. Each man will be tagged with his name and will be expected to make as many acquaintances with his classmates as possible. Men prominent in the various activities of College life will speak to the new students, presenting brief surveys of the literary, scholastic, and athletic phases of the University...
...Boston, today. Four years ago the Seniors held a successful Class Day, at which there was an attendance of seven hundred; but owing to a lack of class spirit, a similar attempt has not been made until this year. The class of 1912 although small hopes by regenerating the custom to make the Medical School Class Day as regular a feature of the program of the Medical School, as is Harvard Class Day on the program of the College...
Secondly and equally important is the custom of the financially depleted Seniors begging a humble penny or two from the generous-hearted Freshman. The cause, the Senior Picnic (be it this year down the harbor or up the river), is a most worthy one, and no member of the Freshman class should mount the steps behind Memorial Hall without being amply prepared to contribute to the bushel baskets which will be paraded below. Freshmen who are caught without ready change can easily obviate the difficulty by weighting the bill with a borrowed coin and casting it to the ground, where...