Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class of 1861, following the custom of classes fifty years out, will hold its Commencement Day Spread in Phillips Brooks House. To this reception there will be invited besides the College officials, men receiving honorary degrees, all graduates of classes preceding 1861, and the sons of men of the last named class...
President Eliot has accepted the invitation of Mayor Fitzgerald to deliver the annual Fourth of July oration in Boston this summer. The custom of delivering an annual civic oration commemorating a national event was started March 5, 1783, the anniversary of the Boston massacre, when James Lovell was the speaker. Later the occasion was changed to July 4 to commemorate in addition the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
...accordance with the custom of past years Professor E. C. Pickering '65, Director of the Harvard College Observatory has invited all members of the Senior class to visit the Observatory tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday of this week from 8 till 10 o'clock...
...past years it has always been the custom for members of the Junior class to act as ushers at all of the Class Day functions and to that end the committee in charge mailed 150 invitations to members of the Junior class to act in that capacity this year. Out of that number, although the majority of the invitations have been out for some time, only 86 have taken the pains to send in answers to the committee. As a complete list of ushers is essential to the success of the day's program, the tardy acknowledgement by the Juniors...
...custom to accept men from other colleges under a system of non-classification. The first year is then virtually a trial. If the work at Harvard is satisfactory some credit is given for that done elsewhere. If it is not satisfactory, that is, if it falls below C, no outside work is recognized. This plan is fundamentally a good one. The fact should be noted, however, that when men are admitted provisionally it is important that they should have exact information regarding what is expected of them, and when and how they will be classified if they attain satisfactory grades...