Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of the Red Book officers by this representative Freshman board is a departure from the custom of having the class officers appoint the chief editors of the staff. More than two months is gained by this new method for it will be possible to have the whole staff picked by the end of a competition in January instead of in March or April as in previous years...
...chose to laugh with Ernest Newman's review headed "Attaboy. " Critic Newman had called the $10,000 "a fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them...
Application blanks for rooms in the Senior Dormitories for next year will be ready for distribution on December 15th. Contrary to the custom of former years, when the blanks were sent out by mail or delivered by the committee, the applications this year must be called for at Lehman Hall. Students are urged to take these blanks home with them in order to discuss the question of rooms with their parents, for only a short period remains after the recess before the draw...
...membership in a fraternity that for more than 150 years has sought to acknowledge and, in so far as possible, to reward the achievements of true scholarship. And in order that you appreciate that honor in the light of the traditions and ideals of the fraternity, it is the custom of some time that you be given at this hour a brief statement of its history and aims...
...outline the development of the fraternity from its small beginning at William and Mary College of Virginia, he said: "Until 1907, the Harvard Chapter elections were based entirely on student standings as evidenced in the records of the College office. At that time several changes were introduced. The custom of honoring specially eight men each year from the Junior Class was inaugurated. Twenty-two seniors were elected at the same time and provision was made for the electors to select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them for consideration...