Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision will be determined by a vote of the audience rather than by several judges, in accordance with the English custom...
According to the usual custom the retiring officers of the Class of 1928 nominate as their successors: for President, C. A. Pratt, Jr., J. W. Baldwin, and E. B. Jakson; for Vice-President. J. P. Chase, H. W. Bragdon, and Moses Williams, Jr.; for Secretary-Treasurer D. P. Donaldson, W. C. Cox, and W. C. Atwater...
...first lecture of the series which Gilbert Murray is delivering as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has been given and, thus, there is officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed...
...custom as well as the privilege of a drama uplift organization like the Repertory is to bite off larger pieces than it can chew. "John The Baptist," adapted by Frances Jewett from the "Johanues" of Hermann Sudermann, turned out to be quite a mouthful and was mangled with more or less success. The theme is worthy of the effort and one can admire the courage if not the discretion of the Repertory players in attempting it. The result to be truthful, was hard to digest...
...managed by G. H. Perkins '26, who handled last year's contests. It is announced that no men will be allowed to enter who are not members of the Union. Although participation in the tournament by outsiders has occurred in the past, officials of the Union stated that this custom would be definitely discontinued from...