Word: customers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this time last year there was a complaint made that one of the instructors in History had refused to tell the men in his elective their marks on the semi-annual examination. We should refrain from repeating the complaint if we had not understood from various quarters that the custom was increasing. It is difficult to discover the especial object in withholding these marks. If a student has not succeeded in passing a creditable examination, it is evidently of the utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application...
...Pooh! That's nothing, father, a mere form; relic of an old custom. You see, about a hundred years ago, the twenty best men of the class used to contend in an examination for the first place. The nineteen who did n't win were told that they might go away into the country, that is, sever their connection with the College, for a while, study up and try their fate again. The custom has died out, but the notices remain, and now they are sent round to show that you are in the first twenty of your class...
...deliberation by the whole board of editors, and no one of them bears or can bear more than a tenth part of the responsibility. An editorial on any important subject is invariably read beforehand at the editors' meeting, and there criticised and altered. It is so much the custom among our readers to regard the editorials as anonymous expressions of individual opinion, that we cannot hope to persuade them all of the falseness of their theory; but we hope that those who are really interested in the paper will recognize that our editorials are the result of the careful thought...
...challenge from Cornell was read, and all present favored accepting it providing they would row at New Haven, as it would be impossible for us to row at Owasco Lake should we go to England; moreover, it is the custom for the challenged party to have the choice of place...
...seems to us that the custom of wearing base-ball suits into Memorial Hall, though rapidly growing in favor among certain students, is not one that recommends itself for universal adoption. We admit that we have never belonged to a base-ball nine, that we are prejudiced, and that we perhaps even deserve to be called squeamish, but still we cannot help objecting to the practice. From an aesthetic point of view blouses of gray trimmed with crimson are not beautiful, and we have been told that one of the advantages gained by boarding in Memorial Hall is the refinement...