Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...avail the labors of their class officers and committees, for a class dinner which has to be stopped by the police is far worse than none at all. The failure of 1913 to hold an orderly dinner is a strong argument for the ending of the Freshman dinner custom...
...unfortunate restriction which the custom of our theatres imposes upon the art of the dramatist--that he must scale all his pictures of life to the measure of about two hours and a half. Clearly things do not happen with just that degree of complexity which makes possible the stating and solving of a problem within any one limit of time. So we are ready to welcome such a departure as enables us to see this week at the Bijou Dream Theatre a piece written to be played in half an hour...
...some years past the various institutions of learning about Boston have been in the custom of giving outside courses of instruction for the benefit of the general public. These courses have now become so numerous and important as to conflict in some degree, and it has been found expedient to co-ordinate them under a common head. By grouping the courses together with one supervising body, their efficiency will be tremendously increased and they will form a connected program of study. It will furthermore enable those enrolled under the new system to count all their courses towards a new degree...
...view, prevent the rupture and disunion which have in some former years ruined all class unity and life after graduation. The next speaker, A. Gregg, praised the new method in that it enabled men to have some sincere reason for rooming in the Yard and did away with the custom of applying simply because it was a thing generally done by most of the class. P. D. Smith, denying the general opinion that friends are not made during Senior year, said that great reliance may be placed in the hearty favor of our greatest graduate; President Lowell, who is doing...
Last year an exception was made to the usual custom and no meet was held with Columbia. In 1908 the University team was defeated by the close margin of 29 to 25 points. Nine men will go to New York and will be entered in the events as follows...