Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following out a custom, inaugurated last year the Senior Class will hold a celebration in the Yard tomorrow evening. Taking the place of the famous Senior picnic of the past, the celebration will be open only to Seniors and will be held in the Yard between Holworthy, and Grays which will be fenced off for the occasion...
...tempted, of course, to remember Hawthorne's creative genius smothered in a custom house or of Burns ganging ale in Dumiries; but that would be a pitiful exhibition of mid-Victorianism. And just a pitiful would be the counter suggestion that the fault of the grammar schools lies in political school boards and underpaid teachers; or that a little logic and a little disagreeable work is very "good for the soul." No, small Cousin Biliee must henceforth be allowed to vent his creative impulse on the fly leaf of a first edition "Ulysses", and improve the hitherto uncolored wood-cuts...
Following the usual custom, the Sophomore Blue Book, a volume supplementing the Freshman Red Book, will be distributed free to all Sophomores after the dinner. Members of the Union may sign for the $1.50 due on the dinner tonight, but non-members must the prepared to pay. All members of the class of 1926 are eligible to attend...
...Coolidge, continuing a custom revived from the past by Mrs. Harding, announced the dates of three large lawn parties?...
...Navy were not as pessimistic as the comment of Secretary. Wilbur would have led one to believe. The report of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, which-has just appeared, far from fulfilling Mr. Wilbur's predictions, might very well be called discouraging. While it is a long established custom for military and naval experts to wall and moan over the state of the country's armed forces, there is a dispassionate note of truth in the Commander-in-chief's report that carries conviction...