Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduating class take place at 9 o'clock, and are considered the most important of the events of Class Day. In former years the address was regularly given by Professor Herbert Palmer '64 but after 1916 he was obliged, because of his age, to give up the custom. Last year, however, Professor Palmer, because of an emergency, consented to speak at Appleton once more. Since the rule that only Seniors may attend is very strictly enforced, even to the extent of having the organist a Senior, this event is the one of the Class Day events which the Seniors...
...accordance with the usual custom, all undergraduates then in Cambridge will assemble on next Thursday, Commencement Day, to cheer the graduate classes previous to the alumni meeting. The cheering, which will immediately precede the forming at Harvard Hall of the alumni for their march round the Yard, will take place at 1.30 o'clock on the west steps of University Hall and will be led by the First Marshal of the Senior Class...
...ever-existing present. Accordingly we should be willing to let the topic rest there, as last handled all too competently by Barrie, and not attempt to break forcibly into the literary roll of fame. Yet the old adage, "autre temps, autre moeurs", still holds good--and the custom of letting our betters have a free field in "Tobacco" must be for once forgotten under the pressure of the latest news from Russia. So we plunge blindly in, stopping only to offer apologies to any forbears or contemporaries who may have evolved classics on "Milady...
Following the usual custom the spread will take place from 5.30 to 7.30 o'clock on the afternoon of Class Day, June 20, and will be held in the quadrangle bounded by Holden Chapel, Stoughton Hall, and Phillips Brooks House unless poor weather conditions necessitate a change, to the ground floor of Phillips Brooks House...
...present, the system of traffic direction about the Square is in keeping with Cambridge's ancient Egyptian custom of getting along without curb-stones. Pedestrians are directed very much as the occasional herds of cattle are conducted, alive or dead; through the Square to the Watertown Abattoir. After all, as State Commissioner Goodwin points out, people on foot do not need any license to operate. And it would be humane for the city authorities to give them an equal chance with other traffic...