Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mass meeting tonight is of the utmost importance to the University. Not only is there the Harvard spirit to awaken, but also all must learn the cheers and songs necessary for success. The two lower classes have not heard them, and the Seniors and Juniors will do well to relearn the many verses of the songs...
...appearing from time to time in issues of the CRIMSON. A different plan is set forth in a communication in the Alumni Bulletin, which proposes that the Harvard Endowment Fund be changed into a Harvard Memorial Fund. But such a plan seems undesirable for it would commercialize the spirit of commemoration which should be the key note of the final memorial. Time alone will determine whether any of the plans under consideration will be selected, but the CRIMSON will be glad to publish any criticism or any new suggestions that may be submitted...
...practices are happily,--and unfortunately done away with. The Seniors no longer dance around the Class Tree, the Ivy Orator has nothing to do with the planting of vines; the ugliest man in the class is no longer presented with a jack knife. We trust, however, that the spirit is much the same today in the University as it was in the College of a century...
...establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track team's plight by a clear presentation of the subject. It is gratifying to note that the table is to be resumed at once, and we feel confident that its benefits will promptly...
...occasions nightgowns should be worn, and sometimes forbidding them altogether, as in 1822: "A night-gown of cotton, or fabric, or silk fabric may be worn....except on the Sabbath or occasions when undress would be improper." Finally, in 1870, the size of the college and the students growing spirit of independence caused these laws to be abolished. From then on, it was a custom for Seniors to appear at Class Day and Commencement in evening dress and silk hats. The Class of 1893 finally voted to wear the standardized caps and gowns recently adopted in an American university conference...