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...Senior class has again decided to adopt class buttons; and however skeptical many Seniors may be as to the actual value of this custom, they should insure it a fair trial. Class buttons in the Senior year seem an unnatural way of bringing classmates together. After living for three years within the University and participating in its various activities, it is not likely that two men who have never before met should be induced by the sight of a button to become close friends. They may, however, be led to recognize each other as members of the same class...
President Eliot then rose. He thanked the speakers for their kind appreciation of his assistance. He went on to say that, though he had been brought up in the Unitarian Church, he had been induced to adopt the position towards the Catholics he has always maintained by the marked signs of development discernible in their church. Although the Roman Catholics have always had the reputation of being conservative and formalistic, he desired to point out that they have not been unprogressive. He instanced the evolution of the modern Roman Mass out of the Coptic Mass, marked by the conversion...
...Sophomore class meeting last night, called to take final action on wearing class buttons, it was resolved not to adopt the plan...
Several speeches were made on the subject of class buttons, but as no one expressed a favorable opinion or made a motion to adopt such buttons, the question was dropped. A collection to help pay the class debt resulted in raising over $70 for this purpose...
...Friday I learned with surprise from your columns of the action of the Sophomore class in regard to wearing class buttons. The Sophomores seem not to have outgrown the state where they want every toy they see their friends playing with. The Senior class buttons, adopted first by the class of 1905, will lose half their value and their full significance, when adopted by other classes. There might be some reason for Juniors to adopt class buttons, after the Seniors begin to wear their caps and gowns on May 1, but for Sophomores it seems absurd. JUNIOR...