Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revival at Harvard of the custom of appointing Seniors as advisers to Freshmen is an interesting development in an ancient problem. It has long been realized by college authorities that parents are unsuited to act in such capacity. As Dean Briggs frankly pointed out in his entertaining "Fathers, Mothers, and Freshmen," too many fathers assure their sons that they will do everything they can to "square" them with those who are in charge of the discipline of the college, while writing those authorities to stick to their guns. Sophomores have always shown an overweening eagerness to assume responsibility...
...nation or public opinion? Is a man at liberty to use solutions of Paris green, arsenic, cyanide of potassium and other poisons, as beverages? Why should attractive solutions of alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy and gin? The acknowledged poisons would merely hasten the result by a few years...
...captain of the University cross-country team will be elected today at a meeting of the first squad in the Locker Building at 3.30 o'clock. The usual custom of allowing only "H" men to vote will not be followed, owing to the disorganization caused by the war, so that every man on the first squad will be eligible to vote...
...Custom, according to most writers on anthropologogy and sociology; is a survival, generally useless, perhaps absurd, and sometimes harmful. If writers had before their minds the seven o'clock bell which peals from the enpola of Harvard Hall, they could not have better formulated their definitions. For no apparent reason, the students in the Yard are daily inflicted with five minutes of sleep destroying agony. When inquiries are made concerning this nerve-shattering tocsin, the reply is invariable: that the bell has always been rung at seven, and probably will always be rung at seven, until its vibrations will have...
Undergraduates will be given the privilege of taking part in the reception in honor of Cardinal Mercier to be held at the University Monday afternoon. The Belgian prelate will be welcomed in Sanders Theatre, and as is the custom on Commencement Day, the President, the Corporation and Overseers of the University and members of Harvard Faculties, with their guests, will march in academic procession from the College Yard to Sanders Theatre. The procession of Undergraduates will start at 3.30 o'clock sharp...