Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show of the Pi Eta Club will be the product of many minds, instead of one as has been the custom heretofore, and its sponsors expect the show to be correspondingly better. Of the five or six manuscripts submitted, the plot will be taken from the book of Howard Finney '26. This will form the backbone of the play. A large part of the "patter" as playwrights have it, will be taken from the book of J. S. Murphy '25. Also the high lights of several other manuscripts will be incorporated, as far as is possible without destroying by abridgement...
...practice of serenading, which began a month after the foundation of the society, was kept up for 50 years until the custom was dropped by the society. On June 22, 1820 "we serenaded almost every pretty girl in Boston, and returned at daybreak." Again Dr. Holmes was serenaded. The Pierian was invited in, and was surprised at the assembly of youth and beauty, "took an affectionate farewell, and many a longing, lingering look was sent back upon many a swimming eye." On a third occasion Judge Fay was serenaded. "We discoursed most eloquent music, much said...
...engineer. In accordance with established policy, President Coolidge appointed as Colonel Morrow's successor Colonel M. L. Walker, the Canal Engineer of Maintenance. Ever since Major General George W. Goethals, the Canal builder, retired in 1916 as the first Governor of the Canal Zone, it has been the custom to follow each retirement by appointing to the Governorship the Engineer of Maintenance, who is an assistant to the Governor and conversant with Canal affairs. In this manner Brigadier General Chester Harding succeeded General Goethals; Colonel Morrow succeeded General Harding ; and now Colonel Walker succeeds Colonel Morrow-continuing an unbroken...
...College, and latterly head of the Boston College Philosophy Department. Dinner over, the Rev. John B. Creeden, S.J., Georgetown's President, introduced Father Lyons to the Georgetown faculty with the simple explanation that Father Lyons would succeed him at once as their President. In accordance with the Jesuit custom of simplicity, no further ceremony marked the induction. In the morning, Father Creeden took the first train for Boston. There he assumed the philosophical duties relinquished by Father Lyons...
...Dramatic Club announced at its open meeting last night that it has departed radically from its established custom in giving this year for the first time a play by an American author. The play chosen for this year's production as announced by the president of the club at the meeting last night, is "Pedro--the King" by Miss A. Anthony Wyce of Boston...