Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Eliot is today celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday at his home in Cambridge. As has been his custom in past years, no reception or other ceremonious observation will be held. He remains in excellent health which permits him to still take an active interest in those national and political questions in which he has always played so important a part...
...spirit of China's students is also shown by their public campaigns against gambling in which the women students took a prominent part, and the fact that although according to ancient custom it was a dishonor for a student to work with his hands, the students of Canton Christian College,-coming even from well-to-do families, when they wanted a swimming pool dug it for themselves...
According to the usual custom a silver loving cup will go to the dormitory which, according to the decision of three judges selected for the occasion best renders the selections of college and prize songs. Last year the cup was won by Gore Hall...
With the reorganization of classes at mid-years comes another allotment of seats in the lecture rooms of the large half courses. This ought to involve nothing worse than a few minutes' wait before a seating list; but unfortunately custom has decreed it differently: seating must be alphabetical...
...have been transported to this country. Under existing conditions it is unsafe to transport them, especially as their removal "in bond" to Boston cannot yet be secured. Up to the time of the war, the glass flowers were shipped direct to Boston and then by the courtesy of the Custom House officials were carried directly to the Museum in Cambridge and were unpacked safely at the University...