Word: customs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reason for the complete reversal of policy with regard to English Composition was, we believe, an economic one. The new policy continues, apparently, from force of custom, though it has its advocates. They argue, among other things, that the average man taking a Composition course regards writing correct English as a stunt, like tight-rope dancing, to be performed only on special occasions in the class-room. This argument has some truth in it, but it is fair to suppose that a man will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment...
Contrary to the usual custom, there will be a dance after the performance. Orchestral music will be furnished...
...Harvard's birth was not on a fixed date. No record of the date has ever been discovered by historians, but the following entry is found in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark: "1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of Robt. a Butcher." According to the custom of the church at this time, it has been assumed that he was not baptized on the day of his birth but three days later. Accordingly, at the time of the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, the date for the celebration was set for November...
...accordance with the custom inaugurated last year, Phillips Brooks House will hold "open house" Thursday evening at 6.30 o'clock for all members of the University who are in Cambridge for Thanksgiving. The gathering will be informal and the entertainment furnished will be of a character befitting the festivities of Thanksgiving evening. Mr. F.W.C. Hersey, of the English department, will give the reading again this year and there will be musical selections by various undergraduates...
...Thanksgiving evening, November 27, Philip Brooks House will open its doors to all members of the University, following the custom inaugurated last year of keeping "open house" on that night. The gathering will be very in formal as a meeting for men who would otherwise find the evening unoccupied. Mr. F. W. C. Hersey, of the English department, will read again this year and various under-graduates will play. Refreshments will be served during the evening, and all members of the University will be cordially welcome...