Word: member
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another strange custom was a rule compelling a lower classman to keep his hat removed from his head while a member of one of the upper classes was in the yard. This custom was finally broken up by a young freshman named Hedge, who, when ordered to uncover by an imperious upper classman, responded to the command by a heavy blow of his fist on the nose of his superior and was supported by the President for his independence...
Almost every man, during his college course, finds himself a member of one or more of the societies in which Harvard abounds. Nearly all these societies, secret or otherwise, were founded for social purposes, and are carried on with this end in view. But there is one notable exception to this the society to which those only are admitted who have shown themselves of permanent ability in regard to scholarship throughout their college course. I refer...
...HASTY PUDDING CLUBwas founded in 1795 by members of the class of 1797, and is the leading senior and junior society. It numbers a little less than one hundred, three-fourths of whom are chosen during the junior year of a class, the rest being chosen the following year. The origin of the name is as follows: In the year 1795, while the students were living together in commons, a member of the class of 1797, who was suffering from ill-health, hired an old lady living near by to cook him regularly some hasty pudding, thinking that this diet...
...Rear-Admiral, the laziest fellow in the class; the Commodore; one addicted to boating; the Captain a jolly blade; the Lieutenant and Midshipman fellows of the same description; the Chaplain the most profane; the Surgeon a dabbler in surgery, or in medicine or anything else; the Ensign the tallest member of the class; the Boatswain one most inclined to obscenity; the Drum-Major the most aristocratic, and his assistants, fellows of the same character. Oh! laziness! fulsere quondam candiditibi soles...
...following are the first twenty five of the Hasty Pudding Club from '88: Adams, Amory, Appleton, Balch, de Billier, Bohlen, T. Q. Browne, Butler, M. H. Clyde, T. Clyde, Crocker, Daniels, de Gersdorff, Homans, Honore, Porter, Rand, Sampson, Sedgwick, Snow, Spaulding, E. R. Thayer, Winslow, Wood, Woodman. Honorary member - J. S. Tooker...