Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...believe that the custom of wearing class buttons now in use of the Senior class with but mediocre success should be transferred to the Freshman class. At first it may seem undesirable to tag the first-year men in this way, but after all there is nothing particularly disgraceful or shameful in being a Freshman. If this custom were adopted, Freshmen would be materially aided in picking out their classmates, and before the end of the year would be more a unit than at present...
...Senior year. A man's friends are made and he will inevitably move more or less completely in his own particular circle, and the fact that he meets another man in the Yard wearing a class button whom he has never seen before will rarely serve more than to tag him as a member of the Senior class. This sounds heretical to the faithful believer in the complete unity of friendship and purpose in the class, but it is the plain truth...