Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...field at 5 o'clock, in order to accommodate out-of-town guests. The intermissions after the first and second acts will be half an hour each in length, and trumpeters will herald the rising of each curtain by playing representative motives from the opera, after the custom at Beyreuth...
Once more, according to custom, spring has revived the tender green. The undergraduate, the object of the hortatory editorial, must therefore once more be supplicated not to thwart Nature by killing the grass. Already the Yard has become riddled with unsightly short-cuts, with many more in an embryonic state. So little effort need be expended in turning aside to the ever-present path, that it seems unfortunate to mar the greensward. Now that most of the trees are gone, the grass is the Yard's chief natural adornment. A feeble will and a cowlike fondness for meandering, these things...
...Seniors must wear their caps and gowns, beginning today until Class Day between the hours of 8 A. M. and 1 P. M. On Class Day caps and gowns must be worn all day. It has been the custom for members of the graduating class to do this every year and it is hoped that every member of 1915 will wear his cap and gown regularly...
...first appearance of the members of 1915 in the Yard in their caps and gowns will be made tomorrow morning. From then until Class Day the Seniors are urged to wear them daily between the hours of 8 and 1, as this has always been the custom of the graduating class for years past and there is no doubt that 1915 will live up to the precedent set by the former classes...
...year's boat races still in mind, and with the memory of other contests that have been won by narrow margins, a point has occured to me as I suppose to others, that perhaps has not been brought to the notice of the officials. It has always been the custom to start boat races with the sterns of the crafts even. The accurate anchoring of scows and the holding of the sterns by experienced men has invariably been arranged with considerable forethought. At the finish line the first bow to cross indicates the winner. Now I do not know what...