Word: customs
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...meeting of the head men of the various club tables in Memorial Hall will be held in the Directors' Room this evening at 6.30 o'clock to take steps toward securing music for dinner hours through the football season. In past years this custom has been followed with beneficial results, and it is probable that an orchestra will be engaged to play two or three evenings each week as formerly...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell:--You having been duly chosen to be President of Harvard College, I do now, in the name of its governing bodies and in accordance with ancient custom, declare that you are vested with all the powers and privileges of that office. It is a great trust, but it is laid on you in full confidence that you will discharge it in the interest alike of the College we love and of the democracy it serves. I deliver into your hands, as badges of your authority, the College charter, seal and keys. God bless...
...been our custom to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine, honoris causa; but an exception is fitting in the case of one who in the opinion of professors of medicine, has accomplished more for the progress of medical education in this country than any other living...
...Glee Club will give its second informal Yard concert in front of Holworthy this evening at 7.30. The first concert, given on the evening of June 8, marked the revival of an old custom which lapsed without any assigned cause three years ago. The consideration which probably induced this lapse was the mistaken desire to save the selections for the concert given in Sanders Theatre that year for the first time, on the eve of the Yale game. Each year since that time letters have been received lamenting the discontinuance of the concerts, and this year the requests...
...revive a custom discontinued several years ago, members of the Glee Club will lead singing in the Yard on pleasant evenings between now and Class Day. The occasions will be entirely informal and no fixed dates or programs will be arranged. All members of the University and especially the Seniors are invited to join in the singing, which will consist of popular and college songs...