Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Co-operative Society official purchasing agent for the University as respects all branches of merchandise in which the Co-operative now carries on business. This will include all stationery and related supplies required by the University in its various laboratories, offices, and departments. Heretofore it has been the custom of the various departments and officers to secure their supplies directly from retailers chiefly in Cambridge or Boston. This system has not only fostered great variations in quality and price, but it has been the source of some inconvenience to the various officers of the University. Under the present arrangement...
...Yale and Princeton regular attendance at morning chapel is compulsory, and every year the senior class at Yale votes to have the custom continued. This shows that men who attend prayers regularly deem it worth the effort. While we do not approve of and would not for a moment advocate compulsory attendance at Harvard, we do wish to call the attention of the University to the fact that a short service is held in Appleton Chapel every morning at 8.45. There is some justification for this, for, as a rule, less than 100 men are scattered about the vacant pews...
...seems most fitting that the custom of holding a special commemorative service upon the anniversary of the dedication of Brooks House has been resumed this year. The keen interest that Phillips Brooks took in the welfare of Harvard and in the individual career of each man whom he came to know is attested by the records of the time and by those who were fortunate enough to be his friends...
Contrary to the custom of previous years, the University hockey, insignia will only be given to those players who play in the games with Princeton and Yale. In past years this insignia has been awarded to those who played in any game in the intercollegiate series...
...meeting of the University Dining Council it was decided to hire Kanrich's Orchestra to play during the remainder of the month of January on Tuesday and Friday evenings between 6 and 7 o'clock. The music will begin this evening. Contrary to the custom of former years the orchestra will be paid for by the Dining Association...