Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much is written in these hurried days of hurried thoughts concerning what are supposedly major traditions that those less spectacular members of the category live or die without any particular notice. There are probably few in the University who realize that the pleasant and often inspiring custom of a short organ recital at the close of Sunday chapel has lately been neglected. Yet those few are very sincere in their belief that something excellent and fine has been allowed to fade into oblivion...
...Davison, when the benediction had closed the service proper, used always to play the organ for a few minutes while those who cared for the custom and for the music remained in the peace and restfulness of noonday Appleton. Now they must chatter forth with the crowd or remain to hear the chattering die into nothingness. Perhaps these good people are too small a number to merit the grand chords which once were theirs. Yet that, only a person of little sensibility can defend. Even minor traditions must be flaunted occasionally in public to prevent their too easy death...
...country as new as Amercia it takes but a short time for a custom to arise, for a tradition to flourish. Already the football game between the teams from Hanover and Cambridge has become a custom, a tradition. Nor is it in any sense other than an excellent one. For two New England undergraduate bodies to mingle once a year can do neither harm. And the game itself has all the attributes of the best in college football...
...which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less truth in the myth that a graduate student is a rare, rare bird. It is high time that the cafeteria tray be taken from the shelf of Harvard custom...
This decision is in strong contrast to the custom of most of our modern writers. They feel called, by some great power, to produce voluminously; and they feel pledged to publish voluminously. Every thought which their minds conceive, every word which their facile pens write, must be perpetuated in print. They are writing literature which the public should have. Even after their death, their heirs gather up the last scraps of paper and edit them, so that the world may have all that the authors wrote...