Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held on Saturday, February 25, Saturday, March 4, and Wednesday, March 8. Two games will be played with Princeton and McGill while clashes with Dartmouth, Brown, Toronto, and M.I.T. are also on the schedule. No games will be played during the Mid-Year examination period, as has been the custom in former years and practice during this time will probably be lighter in character than usual...
...will give as its fall production on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday, December 7 and 8 at Brattle Hall. The latter play is the work of the great French author, Moliere, while "Serenade," was written by a Harvard graduate who prefers to remain anonymous. As has been the custom for the last few years, the club has invited several Boston Debutantes to take part in the performances...
Amelia Earhart Putnam, Ladies' Night guest of honor at Manhattan's Explorers Club, prepared to present a blue Persian kitten as club mascot. William J. Morden, Asiatic big-game hunter and explorer, announced that the aviatrix. in accordance with ancient Inca custom, would anoint the cat's feet with oil to prevent its straying from home. Boomed a voice in the rear: ''Bill's wife says to put some oil on his feet...
...this article unhesitatingly recommends 'English rugby' and 'soccer' (Association football) as played by the best schools and colleges in the British Empire and on the Continent. Such a move would have the added advantage of a regular exchange of games with those countries (the rules being identical), a custom which now happily exists in the case of rowing, track games, tennis, polo, and other forms of sport...
...most valuable opportunities the houses offer is the intimate contact of tutor and men which is largely the result of their taking their meals together. When tables are reserved solely for the use of tutors as is the custom in Eliot, Leverett, and to some extent in Adams House although here the system is breaking down, it is inevitable that the tutors and non-resident faculty members should fail to enter into the common life of the House...