Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wish to remind the Juniors that the applications for rooms in Hollis, Holworthy and Stoughton must be handed in before 1 o'clock today. It is the custom in Cambridge to put things off until the very last minute, the result in this instance being that very near few men have sent in their applications. The members of the class should realize that the Corporation came very near not allowing Senior preference this year, and to ensure the continuance of the custom it is absolutely necessary that the Juniors show their desire to avail themselves of the opportunity. Many...
...Seniors are on the list of speakers at the dinner of the club at Newark, New Jersey, tonight. Undergraduates are always glad of the opportunity of meeting the older Harvard men, and graduates enjoy hearing about affairs in Cambridge from an undergraduate standpoint. There is no reason why the custom, once started should not be continued indefinitely...
...step toward the total abolition of an unpopular system. Although the primary reason for having this competition now and not in the fall is to secure another assistant to aid in the management of the intercollegiate games next spring, its merit lies in its departure from the custom of recent years, when the manager was chosen chiefly with reference to the amount of money collected. Possibly subscriptions are necessary for Freshman teams, but it has long been felt that they should be abolished as regards University athletics. With this move of the track management the crew will be the only...
...Junior class ever seems to succeed in making preliminary arrangements for the Union dance without being put to considerable trouble by the men who will not make applications or do any thing else in this world until the last minute. The class of 1910 has followed this custom excellently and differs only from the classes that have preceded it in being more annoying and less ready to aid the committee than any class within our memory...
...CRIMSON supposes that when this custom was inaugurated it was reasoned that the members of a second team, more particularly in baseball perhaps than in football, have practically no chance of earning the "H" which almost every man on the first squad under certain conditions might receive. As some reward is due them the "H 2nd" was devised and the substitutes for the first team were considered to have enough chance for reward sooner or later without any further complexity of insignia...