Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the program for Class Day is officially announced, and in almost every respect it is the same program that was followed last year, and the year before, and through the years before that. For such rigid adherence to a very beautiful and a very impressive custom Harvard should be grateful indeed...
Wherever I went among the Satellites I found one custom universally observed. Evidently it is a survival of some ancient tribal ceremony. Upon every occasion of rejoicing or lamentation, it doesn't matter which, the Satellites gather together to perform the mysteries of the "Passingout". For this purpose they immerse themselves in an occult liquid which possesses the incompatible qualities of both water and fire, for it looks like the one but acts like the other. What I have seen of this religious ceremony of the "Passingout" gives me excellent grounds for belief in the transmigration of souls...
...been the custom for years the selections given will be chosen from some of Professor Copeland's favorite authors, Kipling, Sassoon, Fielding and Donald Ozlea Stewart. He has not yet announced the exact passages he will read on this occasion...
Subscriptions for the Alumni Bulletin among members of the Senior class will be solicited this year through a board, instead of by one man, as has been the custom in the past...
According to custom, the Freshmen must contribute coins and other articles to the Seniors before the 1928 picture can be taken. What is to be done with the fund thus collected is not as yet known, except that it will finance a Senior celebration...