Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although there will be no Senior picnic this year, the custom in the past of soliciting contributions from the Freshman class will be continued this year by the Class of 1923. Instead of devoting the money collected to a picnic, the Seniors will use the funds for some other form of class gathering, for which plans are now being made...
...first play of the four to be given in Boston, the Moscow Art Theatre, the most famous repertory theatre in the world, chose the rambling, pseudochronicle history play of Alexei Tolstoy, "Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch", as has been its custom in New York and Chicago. The play affords manifold opportunities for spectacle and ensemble work, manifold chances for actors and director. These were more than taken advantage of by players and producers. A more beautifully grouped, paused, acted, and costumed production Boston has seldom seen. This much is plain in spite of the difficulties of a foreign tongue. There are those...
...University Glee Club, in accordance with the annual custom of previous years, will give the first of its series of three Yard concerts on the steps of Widener Library at 7 o'clock this evening. The other two outdoor concerts will take place on the following Tuesday nights...
...dignified robes to keep them unsoiled for Commencement. But modesty has probably been his strongest motive: "Nobody else is doing it." Conspicuousness is not particularly pleasant; it is easier to follow the leader. And the natural leaders, the class officers, have been as hesitant as any about beginning the custom: no doubt their extra crimson decorations 'make them feel even more self-conscious...
...custom, properly pursued, has its uses: it enhances the dignity of the Seniors: it gives the Freshmen something to talk about, and it reminds the rest of the University that the scholarly pursuits which the costume typifies do play some part in the life of the undergraduate, in spite of all that has been said to the contrary...