Word: customs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thing more, as to the "hic jacet." Is not this last attack the best way to stir up a real old-fashioned theatre party? If the custom was dead, why revive it again by trying to turn a quiet theatre party of forty fellows into a noisy revel of a whole class...
...very gratifying to note that the custom of hazing is rapidly losing its hold here. The course of the present sophomore class has generally been very commendable in respect to that, and should '86 in turn frown upon that time-honored, though barbarous custom, Yale would forever afterwards be relieved from every reproach from that source...
...their courage failed. With a feeble cheer for '86, panic-struck, they turned and fled, some boarding a passing Harvard square car, the rest, grimly resolved, returning to brave the terrors of a supper at Young's, and there drown the memory of their sad guilt. Hic jacit the custom of freshman theatre going, not by the hand of prerogative, not as token of failure, but overtaken by old age and debility it dies a natural death...
...correspondent asks an explanation of the Harvard custom of anonymous college journalism. "The publications," he says, "of Yale, Princeton, Tufts, Dartmouth, Vassar, Brown, Trinity, Technology of Boston, and many others which do not now occur to me, all give the names of their editors in the heading, and it would seem that Harvard is the only exception...
...question why this is so, we can only answer that so far as we are aware this custom has always existed at Harvard, and it does not seem probable that it will change. The names of the editors of Harvard papers are, however, usually published at either the end or beginning of each volume issued, and they also appear annually in the Harvard Index. The custom certainly has its advantages; and undoubtedly it is in accordance with the general sentiment of the college in such matters...