Word: customs
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...best ways to popularize the Glee Club is by means of the open air concerts of the spring evenings. There have been too few of these in recent years and they have been too perfunctory. Considerations of weather of course prevent any definite schedule, but if it became a custom for members of the Glee Club to gather at some spot in the Yard on warm evenings and sing for a little while merely for the pleasure of it, much would be done to cultivate more enjoyable popular singing, as well as to add a delightful touch to the Yard...
There are still over 150 members of the Senior Class in Cambridge who have not yet been measured for their caps and gowns. As this custom of wearing caps and gowns during the month of May is of great value to the class, it is to be hoped that these men will be measured before the Easter recess in order that their gowns may be delivered by May 1. When being measured at the Co-operative, no deposit is necessary. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...order that the custom of wearing caps and gowns after May 1 may be a success, men must be measured today to insure their getting their outfits by that date. Men measured today will only be charged $4.65; after today, the price will be advanced to $5.15. No deposit is necessary. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...since 1906, beginning Monday, April 27, and continuing for two weeks. The work will be light, and will consist mainly in kicking practice. During the spring there will be informal weekly meetings, where the points of the game can be discussed and the coaches consulted. Next fall the old custom of holding competitions in punting and kicking will be renewed and cups offered...
...resignation of Professor Reginald Heber Fitz '64, Hersey Professor of Tehory and Practice of Physic, was accepted, Professor Fitz having reached the age limit for doctors in the Massachusetts General Hospital, established by custom for the resignation of the Medical School Professors. In 1868 Professor Fitz received his M.D. at Harvard, and then spent two years in foreign study. On his return he practiced a year in Boston, and in 1871 was appointed Instructor in the University, since when he has held the important position of Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy and Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic...