Word: custom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...foot the annual scrub hockey series. These games have in the past brought many men into the competitive enjoyment of a sport which they are unable to participate in as representatives of the University. It is only natural, therefore, that this year as usual this excellent custom should be kept up, and it will be a source of great disappointment, and a sign of the flagging of healthy interests, if the games do not assume their usual importance...
...this season. The game with the University team is scheduled for November 2 and the game with Yale for November 16, the same relative dates as were followed this fall. The game with Dartmouth, however, has been shifted to three weeks earlier in the season than has been the custom in the past, so that instead of meeting Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale on three successive Saturdays, Princeton will have two weeks intervening between each two of the three hardest contests. The Navy does not appear on the schedule, and the negotiations which last year pointed to a game with Cornell...
...ever been discovered by historians, but the baptismal records of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, bear the following entry: "1607 November 29 John Harvye S. of Robt. a Butcher." It has generally been assumed that he was not baptized on the day of his birth, but according to the custom of the church in this time, three days after. This custom may or may not have been followed. However, at the time of the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard in 1907, the celebration was arranged for November 26 in accordance with the custom cited above. On this...
Contrary to the usual custom morning prayers will be held in Appleton Chapel tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. The service, which will be held at 8.45 o'clock, will be conducted by Dr. Fitch and will be open to members of the University and to the public...
Contrary to the usual holiday custom, however, morning prayers will be observed in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock. Rev. A. P. Fitch D.D. '00 will conduct the service, which will be open to the public...