Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senior picnics were formerly a regular event in the program of the graduating class, but after 1922 were discarded. The custom is being revived this year. The picnic, as has always been the case, will be financed by the money begged from the Freshman class before the latter's picture was taken. The sum collected this spring was larger than any previous one in the history of the Senior beggings, it amounted...
...recent meeting of the University Debating Council it was definitely decided to permit graduate students to compete for positions on the University debating team which will meet Oxford this fall. This is a radical departure from the custom of former years, which restricted membership on all debating teams to undergraduates only...
Belgium, which has been governed during the past six weeks by the resigned Theunis Cabinet, was apathetic when M. Van de Vyvere accepted the King's mandate to form a Cabinet. Recently, it had become a weekly custom for the King to call this and that leader and request him to form a Government. But when M. Van de Vyvere succeeded in forming a Cabinet, the Belgians were most surprised. The Cabinet...
...tutors, with whom he studies a particular part of his field. He sees his tutor once a week for one hour. At the beginning of the term the tutor decides what his pupil is going to read--though the order of subjects is more or less set by custom. He then assigns an essay subject, and gives a generous list of suggested reading. The subject is usually controversial, not to be written from text-books. It ought, however, to imply the study of important events and of a fairly long period, so that a series of eight essays approximates...
...renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched that violent protests are made at any disturbance of them...