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...accordance with another custom, the Freshmen of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries furnished "Batts, Balls, and Foot Balls" for the use of the students. Throwing anything across the Yard, or playing football or "any other game" therein was forbidden...
This is the third year that Professor Copeland has read at Kirkland House, having conducted a reading every year since the house was established. According to his custom he has not divulged his choice of selections to be read. Professor Copeland will not remain for dinner in the house, but will leave immediately after...
...athletic schedules was to turn out teams which could vie with similar aggregations from Yale. During this time of mighty traditions and turtle-neck sweaters, contests with other colleges were regarded chiefly as a means of preparing for the all-important tilt with the Bulldog; naturally, when the custom of awarding insignia to Varsity teams was adopted, the letters went only to those who had participated in the Yale game...
...administration must realize that the monetary question is more than an academic one for irritable professors to squabble over; that it is one closely connected with the traditions of the American community. Monday is more a social custom and a habit than a deliberately designed instrument to control human behavior, but the men attempting to regulate our monetary system do not seem to realize this. They treat the question in a purely theoretical manner, and instead of putting men of practical judgment who have the confidence of the people in control of the situation, they give to into the hands...
...first 45-minute half, the battle was a fierce one. During the 15-minute intermission the Yale men relaxed by sprawling on the field, as was the custom. But, Dr. Conant, exercising authority that has remained with football physicians over since, marched his men into a rude shanty, the first locker room...