Word: customers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sometime been the custom in assigning the provisional list of commencement parts to signify to which of the three grades of parts - oration, dissertation, or disquisition - the student is entitled. Last year the experiment was tried of arranging the names of all the men entitled to parts in alphabetical order, making no distinction between the three grades. This year the old custom was taken up again, but as it is found that very many corrections in the provisional list have to be made before the end of the year, the assignment by grade will hereafter be discontinued in the provisional...
Williams College, under the lead of Prof. Lefavour, the instructor in physics, has introduced a measure providing that the metric system of weights and measures shall be used exclusively in the custom service of the United States...
...trustees of Exeter Academy have voted to go back to the old custom of remitting tuition to needy students...
...accordance with a custom of long standing, the Evangelical Churches throughout the country will observe this week as the annual week of prayer. In accordance with the observance the Y. M. C. A., through its different branches, will hold short prayer meetings each evening of the week. The Y. M. C. A. of Harvard will act in unison with the other branches of the Association, and will hold short services in their rooms in Lawrence Hall every evening this week. These services are very simple; no attempt is made to make them more than quiet observances of the general custom...
...years ago the custom was begun of having an annual foot ball dinner. The first object of this dinner was to recognize the unselfish exertions of the men who work all through the fall as candidates for the eleven. A second, and really more important, object was to bring the University as a whole, the graduates and the undergraduates into closer and better understood relations on athletic matters. The dinner in the two years that it has been held has been one of the most stimulating and helpful occasions of the college year...