Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heads of dull and backward students was developed to a high degree by the "Widow" Nolen. . . . He flourished largely because he was able to do what so many instructors could not do--present the substance of a course in an orderly and systematic manner. Tutoring is an old custom, and there will always be laggards or dullards who will turn to tutors for assistance. But if the dull and backward profit from a "boiled down", presentation of a subject, does it not follow that the brighter students would do likewise? As a matter of fact, is not the entire system...
Resuming an old annual custom the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will do its utmost to down its ancient rivals, Yale's Phi Beta Kappas, on the Freshman baseball diamond at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The Crimson aggregation held its first practice yesterday afternoon. A report from New Haven states that the Eli nine has been practicing some time to avenge the defeat it suffered at the hands of its hosts in Cambridge two years...
...place of having the dinner before the game as was formerly the custom, this year, for various reasons, the time has been changed so that now arrangements have been made to hold the dinner after the contest in the Tower Room in Memorial Hall. Although the speakers for the occasion have not as yet been definitely selected, it is hoped to secure several men of prominence to address the two societies...
...mile limit were given out, five nations protested the intention of the United States as unfriendly. Spain and England presented notes; France, Italy, Holland had their representatives call at the State Department. None of the protests were extreme -they pointed out that the proposed regulations were " contrary to international custom," a dangerous precedent," " unjustifiable interference with the internal affairs of a ship...
This evening at 7.30 o'clock the portion of the Yard between Holworthy and Grays Halls will be closed to all but Seniors as a ceremony of Senior Day, an annual custom inaugurated this year...