Word: token
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ceremonies consist of the forty-five present members of the senior societies, Skull and Bones, Scroll & Key, and Wolf's Head, appearing one by one on the campus and every one slapping a member of the present junior class as a token of his election, ordering him to go to his room, where he is formally notified of his election in private. --Boston Transcript...
...that Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Company, was a chorus girl upon a time. This year the club offers an amateur musical comedy of which the whole cast is made up of men who have been in the service. The resumption of "the Pudding" is a sure token of the fact that Harvard is itself again. Boston Herald...
...Roll of Honor now stands in the entrance corridor of the Widener Library building, and since Memorial Day several names have already been added to the list. It is frankly a contemporary memorial, a current token of recognition, not intended to stand as the University's permanent tribute to its fallen sons. From London a correspondent of the Bulletin has recently written: "At University College yesterday I saw one side of the corridor lined with photographs, four rows deep of graduates and students killed in this war. When one goes the provost writes a letter of sympathy and asks...
...recognized forms of auxiliary service, a small medal--a sort of pocket-piece or lucky penny--on which appears the name of it holder and a few words testifying to the university's appreciation of what he is doing for his country. The cost of each token is only about thirty cents. A coin of the same character was carried by Minnesota men in the Spanish War, and proved a token of association highly valued at the time and ever since...
...splendid proof and token of the perpetuity of the fighting spirit of the American people, and a token and promise of glorious days to come, when the young soldiers now in France, themselves looking back upon fifty years of honorable citizenship, their days lengthened in the light of their country's gratitude, will bear aloft on our Boston streets the same untiring standard of liberty. --Boston Transcript...