Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...those numerous students who have been wondering why the weekly vesper services have been discontinued so early this year. The custom heretofore, I believe, has been to have these services up to the Easter recess. By making last week's service the last for this year, the student body loses six recitals of sacred music. I believe I am voicing the sentiments of a large number by expressing the wish that these beautiful services be continued up to the spring vacation...
...class crews in Sophomore, Junior and Senior years, and played on the University football team in Sophomore and Junior years. At present he is a consulting engineer in New York, and interested especially in the development of iron mines. His election as Chief Marshal is in accord with the custom of choosing for that office a member of the class which is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation...
...Custom, aided by natural reluctance to speak plainly, has prevented managers from telling the truth at the beginning of a competition to men who are obviously not possibilities for election. It has been thought kinder to let them work, dropping them as early as occasion arose, or, if this were not possible, nominating them as dummies for election. We believe that within a few days after the opening of the competition a manager should, after careful consideration and personal interviews with each man, drop all whom he knows to be unfit for the position. In doubtful cases, he should tell...
...revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough edges in tradition, custom, manners, personalities to catch it. Here it is that the Lampoon is at a disadvantage. Life with us is too decent orderly, conventional, grown-up man- nish, and of the world worldly. There are few persons who of their won selves write caricature, merely ex-officio, in salt without meat. Again...
President Eliot will preside at the meetings of the Association, since by long-standing custom the president of the college which entertains the Association acts as presiding officer for the session. A temporary secretary will be chosen at the first meeting today. The discussions of the Association will not be open to the public. The questions which will be brought up in the meetings have been suggested by several of the institutions which are members, and they will be informally discussed as they are brought up by the presiding officer...