Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his annual reading for Freshmen in the Dining Room of the Union at 9 o'clock on Thursday evening, March 15. It has been the custom in the past to hold this reading in the fall of the year, but this year it was postponed at Professor Copeland's request...
...years it has been the custom of the crier to announce the approach of court as the Justices filed into the room and seated themselves. Then he would intone the traditional "oyez," admonishing all having business "before this honorable Court to draw near and give their attention, because this Court is now sitting...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will begin Monday, March 5, at 7 o'clock, in room 12, Harvard Union. Freshmen and Sophomores only will be eligible for the competition, which will consist chiefly of clerical work, and will give men an opportunity to develop business ability. Contrary to the custom of former competitions, the candidates will not be called upon to solicit advertisements...
...urging that the historic picnic be abandoned, are taking a step to which most of their classmates will quickly assent. The practice of the picnic in recent years has shown lessening of interest by the class as a whole, and an increased emphasis on its objectionable features. The custom is one which would die a natural death if no unfortunate occurrence interrupted it to bring a sudden end. The convenient riddance which the present Seniors propose will be a relief to succeeding classes and no great loss...
...ethics of "Stalky and Co," and its "moral suasion" has been much discussed. Even now, with so startling an effect of the fag system set before them, the English papers are still battling over the question. The opponents of the custom have good support in the news of this suicide; their antagonists lay stress on the "over-sensitiveness" of the boy in the case, an uphold hazing as being generally wholesome and corrective. Both sides, incidentally, agree that hazing is not nearly so prevalent as it was fifty or a hundred years...