Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete with miniature barges. But there was no such gift last week. No barge company had felt the urge. Tactfully His Majesty's mother, frugal Princess Helen, explained that he would receive presents from the Royal Family not on his real birthday but on his name day, the custom in Rumania. However there was a nice gentleman waiting in the antechamber with quite a lot of presents...
...custom of holding the University tens in the Living Room of the Union will not be entirely given up this year, although, like the first, a number will be given in other large meeting rooms of the University...
First in the procession was Sheriff Jonathan Andrews of Providence County, resplendent in top hat, evening dress, a bright blue ribbon across his starched shirt front, a sword knocking at his side. Since 1790 this has been the Brown custom on such occasions. After the Sheriff came a faculty member bearing the university's golden mace, not so old a custom, the mace having been acquired two years ago. Dr. Barbour and Chancellor Arnold Buffum Chace came next. Close behind was Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for without a Harvard President present, no Brown President has ever taken office. Under...
...recent decision of the faculty of the Phillips Exeter Academy to allow all men in school regardless of their scholastic standing to compete in athletics with rival institutions seems on the surface ill-considered. It has long been the custom of most of the leading colleges and preparatory schools to make athletes too the mark academically, and to all intents and purposes the effects of these regulations have been entirely beneficial. Athletes have been forced to realize that the primary purpose of a higher education is not to play football...
Professor Garrod has announced that he will follow the custom established by Professor Gilbert Murray when he occupied the Norton Chair, by holding informal discussion groups in his rooms, 37 Grays Hall, on Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock. The second of these meetings will take place tomorrow...