Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea was derived from a custom at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris of carrying the drawings from the draughting tables to the judgment room by means of a small push-cart--a charrette. . . so that when a student is particularly rushed with his work he is said to be working "en charrette". In America this means expending a great effort. In Paris once a year the Ecole gives a large entertainment called the "Fete d'Ecole" the idea of which the University School has enlarged upon with its "Fete Charrette...
...their colleges led in the scoring. Scarcely a year passes without at least one American graduate on the victorious Cambridge or Oxford crew. Similar results in international contests indicate that the Americans have a fair margin of superiority. The biennial track meets, which give promise of becoming an established custom, are a case in point; similarly the Yale-Harvard tennis team of last year...
...mere lapse of a few milleniums is not enough to relegate a custom of the past to oblivion. Life, perhaps, is fleeting, but time is short. When a certain Pharoah was embalmed and laid away in his royal tomb in the hillside, a mouse happened to wander in with his funeral procession. When the slaves sealed up the gate the mouse lay down beside the king, and so they were found when the archaeologists broke in--companions in eternity...
...Thomas Dowse, expends a certain sum yearly to provide for a course of lectures of the highest literary or scientific character. Due to the Great War, however the fund during the past few years was given to charity, but now, with that emergency past, the trustees are perpetuating the custom with this series of lectures by Professor Kittredge. The tragedies will be analyzed from a critical point of view...
Buster Keaton is to appear at the Harvard non on Thursday, Jan 18--but not Buster Keaton in real life. A regular moving-picture show is to be presented, and if the experiment is successful, it will be continued as a permanent custom. Harvard Square movies may find their realization in those of the Harvard Union...