Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occupied by the Deans' offices were the original dining rooms. One room was occupied by each class in the College, and the plates of food were passed in through large round openings in the hallways, which have since been boarded up. After meals in University Hall, it was the custom for the students to take their pewter mugs and go out to a buildings, probably the original brewery, at the north end of the University, where they received their regular allotment of ale and beer...
...Cercle Francaise will this year depart from its annual custom of limiting its activities in its fall productions by presenting three one-act plays in Brattle Hall some time during the month of January...
...continuance of what promises to be a regular custom, the Harvard Dramatic Club has announced that it will present again this year an Old English miracle play. It will be produced, as last year, before the Cathedral background of the Germanic Museum. Performances will be given on Tuesday, December 19 and will be open only to persons holding tickets to the "Liar" at its various presentations...
...very objectionable to other groups. The Democrats will nominate to run against him, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor leader in the last House. His nomination will be purely a matter of form, since the Democrats have no desire to elect him; it is the custom for the minority party to nominate for Speaker, the man whom later becomes its floor leader. The insurgents planned to name to oppose Mr. Gillett, Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, a Representative whose service began at the same time as Mr. Gillett's. His nomination will probably be a matter of tactics...
...basketball team, in accordance with a custom inaugurated two years ago, will hold this evening at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium an exhibition match between two quintets picked from the experienced members of the first squad...