Word: customs
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...reception, it was decided to accept the challenge, in so far as to acknowledge our desire to meet the Yale Nine in a series of games; but the fixing of the days on which each individual game shall take place was left till some future time. The custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years, and it is, I think, the only true way of testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage gained by the club on whose grounds the single...
...though at Trinity there used to be a law that only those who had signed the "Thirty-nine Articles" should have a scholarship or even a degree. Gladstone's bill would have made legal what has hitherto been granted to Roman Catholics and Non-Conformists only by sufferance and custom. But this measure, though approved by the liberal and thoughtful men of all parties, did not suit the Roman Cardinal, who insisted that Trinity and Queen's should be left as they are, and that a new college should be endowed, to be under the exclusive control of the Roman...
...NOTICED in the last Magenta an article commending the practice of roughing (I must accept the word in its new sense), and pointing out the great advantages to be derived therefrom. It seems to me that this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In some circles a man's actions, good or bad, his words, and even his dress, are the objects of sharp ridicule and thoughtless jest, which often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without...
...great odds - if, indeed, he is not effectually silenced - whose voice is drowned by uproarious laughter. All undergraduates know that roughing creates the habit of giving a ready reply; in fact, I can think of no method by which it is more successfully cultivated. Upon this ground, then, the custom which is so bitterly attacked by some is upheld. I hope it will not be inferred that I am defending any one for offering insults to another under the mere pretence that he is endeavoring to correct him. It would be presupposing a lack of common sense on the part...
There is also another purpose which a college paper serves. It is the custom to praise the habit of gathering in a friend's room around the fire, and conversing on the various subjects suggested by life here. Men from all quarters of the country, it is said, come together, and the ideas a man obtains from conversation are worth more to him than all the contents of his text-books. But the truth is, that men in different sets rarely meet to join in any long conversation. A college paper, however, furnishes a place in which communications, from...