Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Eliot is quietly passing his eighty-sixth birthday in Cambridge today. As has been his custom in other years no special celebration will mark...
With Yale's easy victory over the swimming team on Wednesday night, another unsuccessful aquatic season draws to a close. It has become quite the custom now to read of Harvard's defeats in the water; when the team wins, it is actually an occasion for surprise. People not too familiar with conditions here wonder at the cause for this succession of routs, they smile at the facility with which the smaller colleges snatch contest after contest from Harvard, and they grope vaguely for the reason for our pitiful lack of prowess in swimming...
Following the custom in former triangular debates the negative team of each university will debate at home, and the affirmative away. Princeton and the University will debate at Cambridge, Yale and the University at New Haven, and Yale and Princeton at Princeton. The university winning both debates will be awarded the championship...
...order to re-unite the Senior Class before the separation which must come at Commencement, the custom of rooming in the Yard during the last year at college has grown up. The purpose of this is not to force unnatural friendships, for companionship with an uncongenial man can never be engendered by artificial means. But it is based on the fact that the continual contact, even though entirely superficial, which comes from constantly rubbing up against other members of the class tends to produce a distinct Class consciousness. If this end is to be gained, it is essential that...
Robert W. Emmons, 2nd, '95, of Boston, has been chosen chief marshal for Commencement Day this spring. This is in accordance with the custom of choosing a member of the 25-year class for this position...