Word: customs
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...generation; but it is necessary to make a beginning in this respect. This was done in the case of the ball nine in 1878, and of the races last year. Tablets recording the first three class races were placed in the Gymnasium, and it was hoped that the custom, once started, would not be allowed to fall into disuse. But, either owing to oversight or negligence, no record of the last October races has yet appeared in the Gymnasium, and it is time for the Executive Committee of the Boat Club to see that this omission is rectified...
...which some of us "old boys" of Yale have taken pains to impress upon several successive generations of new-comers, until at last their further reiteration seems unnecessary. Ever since 1875, when Harvard's representatives consented to the establishment of an annual eight-oared Harvard-Yale race, the unvarying custom of the Yale Boat Club has been to concentrate all its resources on that race; and this policy has now hardened into a fixed tradition. Hence, whatever talk may be raised to the contrary by a minority of "fresh" and shortsighted enthusiasts, the experienced and sagacious majority can always...
...enough for a minor race to remain there several days, or even one night, to see it. It has already been declared by those who have arranged several races that to have two races in one day would be very undesirable, if not impossible, so that "to establish the custom of an annual Freshman race, to be rowed at New London at the time of the 'Varsity," as suggested by the Advocate, would not be possible...
Whereas, in accordance with a time-honored custom, the students of Harvard University, irrespective of party, will march in the Republican procession, Monday evening...
...WEEK from to-morrow, if the weather is favorable, the class races will be rowed over the Charles River course. There are several objections to keeping up the custom of class races in the autumn, the principal of which are the liability to bad weather, and the shortness of time that can be had for training; but these are more than over-balanced by the advantages that are derived from the practice. It gives an impetus to rowing, trains men to row a race, and affords the captain of the 'Varsity an opportunity of examining men who may become candidates...