Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard lined up Saturday without two of her most valuable me, Mahan and Gilman. With only a few substitutions the eleven fought its way through the contest, awaiting its opportunity to break the scoreless tie. Coach Haughton saw fit to disregard his custom of rushing in substitutes in the second half, and so he left practically the original team intact to work out its own salvation...
According to the custom of former years, President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home on Sunday afternoons, beginning tomorrow, between 4 and 6 o'clock. They will be glad to see students of the University at this time. These informal meetings have been, in years past, a very successful method for increasing the friendly understanding between the President and the students. New men will be especially welcome...
...Yale oarsmen planned this year to follow out their usual custom in arriving two or three days ahead of the Harvard crew, but they were unable to accomplish this as high winds and general unfavorable weather conditions prevented them from bringing around the boats. The men did not arrive until a day before the Harvard crews. The general rowing schedule for the daily work at Gales Ferry this year has included two work-outs each day. The morning is usually subordinate to the afternoon when the real work of the day is done. This consists of time rows when Coach...
...receive the Governor and his staff who come out from Boston escorted by a body of citizen cavalry called the Lancers. Then a procession is formed and all march to Sanders Theatre where as many as possible crowd in. The meeting is called to order according to the ancient custom by the Sheriff of Middlesex County, who pounds on the floor with the scabbord of his sword and shouts, "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez"--the ancient form for calling a court to order. Then after the prayer the University Marshal calls on four or five candidates for degrees for their "parts." After...
This morning according to the usual custom, Coach Arthur Beane '11 and the managers were thrown overboard...