Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present issue of the Harvard Magazine indicates that its editors are coming to realize the mark for which they must aim if the magazine is to succeed. The opportunity for the Harvard Magazine lies in the field of the unusual and the unconventional; the Advocate by custom and tradition covers the ground of the conventional story and essay. The opening for the Harvard Magazine is not in an attempt to rival the Advocate and to compete with it on its own ground, but to branch out into new and at present unexploited fields...
...defining terms. What is a Glee Club? Presumably, it is a club that sings glees. What is a glee? Webster defines it as a composition of English origin, for three or more solo voices, in two sections, and accompanied. The music need not be of a gleesome style. Modern custom uses such numbers as Morley's "My bonnie lazz" and "Now is the month of Maying" it clearly is entitled to the name, Glee Club; moreover, I venture the assertion that the Harvard organization is the only college singing club that uses such compositions, and hence, it is the only...
...University and Worcester Polytechnical Institute teams tomorrow night. A four-piece orchestra has been provided, and the dancing will start immediately after the game and continue until about 11.30. If this is successful it is planned to have dances after all the Saturday evening games, as it is the custom at other colleges...
...concert at Watertown, Mass., in aid of the Scholarship Fund of the Harvard Club of Watertown. On April 9 the Clubs will play at a dance given for them by the Harvard Alumni of Providence, R. I. This concert and dance at Providence is an established custom, this being the third year it has been held...
...innovation in the Union next year which will be awaited with interest is the addition to its regular dining facilities of the old-fashioned type of "club table." This will mark the revival of a custom previously prevalent at Harvard, now many years suspended, which older graduates review with genuine pleasure and appreciation...