Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Contrary to the custom of the past few years, neither Memorial Hall nor Randall Hall will be in operation during the six weeks' session of the Summer School. It is unfortunate that no arrangement can be made whereby one of the halls can be used to accommodate the summer students but the losses incurred in past years have been so great that it seems out of the question...
...this year? There was a time when these informal performances by the musical clubs in the early summer evenings were each year expected as a matter of course, but last year it was only at President Eliot's suggestion that the clubs realized their incumbency to continue this excellent custom and then only one concert was given...
...shame to let such an excellent custom disappear, especially one in which there is so much to be gained and enjoyed by Harvard men. After all is said and done, there are times when most of us yearn just a little for a touch of that more compactly organized life of the small college--not by any means all of it--but the freer and a little more universal fellowship of those communities which have a different constitution from ours. And the Yard concerts would help to foster this...
...still have an antiquated custom here at Harvard, which has very little to recommend its continuance save its antiquity. We refer to the ringing of the College bell every morning at 7 o'clock. In most instances the College authorities have allowed the students to regulate their personal habits in their own way, but in this case there is a notorious exception. The mode of life at the University has so changed in recent years that most students find no occasion whatever for rising before 8 o'clock. Why, then, should those who live within sound of this bell...
Although every effort has been made by the Class Day Committee to continue the old custom of wearing caps and gowns in the class of 1908, only about fifty men have had the courage to wear them. Such a deplorable lack of interest has been manifested in this old tradition, that many Seniors have even neglected to be measured for their gowns. In order that the class of 1908 may uphold the example of former graduating classes, it is absolutely necessary that every Senior procure his cap and gown at once and wear them. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...