Word: custom
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...great Gold Medal is awarded for distinguished service in a special field of endeavor, either in the form of a specific act or a notable career. In accordance with the custom of inscribing on the medal some significant phrase descriptive of the activities of the recipient, the Civic Forum has decided to inscribe the word "Teacher" upon the medal...
Reviving an old Harvard custom of having an annual class dinner, the Class of 1925 will hold the first Sophomore dinner since the war at 6.45 o'clock on Tuesday evening, May 15. Prior to an address by the principal speaker of the evening, President Lowell, the class will be addressed by Dean Chase and B. F. Rice-Bassett, class president...
...University Glee Club, according to its custom of the past few years, will sing on the steps of Widener Library on three Tuesday evenings during the month of May, the 8th, the 15th, and the 22nd. At 7 o'clock the members of the club will gather on the steps and will sing under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison. Following the program by the Glee Club, Dr. Davison will lead all members of the University and public in the singing of the college songs...
...accordance with the annual custom of wearing caps and gowns throughout May and June, Seniors will begin wearing them today and will continue to went them every morning until 1 o'clock for the remainder of the college year...
...modern cyclist does not get the exhilaration which one felt bestride one of these mighty wheeled bicycles, especially when it was the custom to blow a horn with one free hand. Beside these cyclists strode groups of "pedestrians", not sauntering in dress clothes but flailing the air with their elbows and equipped according to the sport catalogue. At times there would go racing by a "gentleman's driving outfit", consisting usually of a buggy stripped for speed, fragile wheels and a pair of well clipped, mettlesome horses that could do a mile in not too many seconds over two minutes...