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...suggest through the columns of the CRIMSON that some students appear to need training concerning their attitude towards the playing and singing of "Fair Harvard" at football games. It is a tradition and custom among Harvard alumni, at all gatherings where "Fair Harvard" is played and sung, to stand in their "tracks," heads uncovered, and to remain so until the end of the first stanza of this much revered Harvard song. At present it appears to be the signal, among too many students, for a stampede from their seats--much to the regret and disappointment of many Harvard graduates. Francis...
Adversity & Mettle. Upheld in all their battles by a tradition that somehow combined (as in the U.S. Marines) unbending obedience and discipline with fearless frankness and individualism, the Black Watch had small respect for top-brass rulings that offended their habits and sense of custom. "Halt, wha's that?" snapped a sentry one night. "Come, come," said the approaching officer, "that's no way to challenge. Ask me the password." "This is nae time for your bloody kiddin'," snapped the sentry. "Whit's your bloody name...
...million people there are no more than 2,000, but Garrison puts the figure "probably not much below 20,000 . . . about the same fraction of the total population that the Quakers have in the United States." One source of uncertainty about the total, he says, is the Roman Catholic custom of counting anybody who has been baptized a Catholic, even though he may have since joined a Protestant church. This principle works a great hardship upon young Protestants who want to get married, since Spanish law demands that if either partner has had a Catholic baptism, the couple must...
...prince from the tip of his elegant shoes to the top of his wavy-maned, handsome head. He dresses as fastidiously as a latter-day Beau Nash. A symphony in greys, he orders as many as a dozen suits at a time from exclusive Manhattan Tailor James Bell (other customers: James Farley, Harry Truman). He always sports a deep red carnation in his buttonhole, tucks an expensive handspun, monogrammed linen handkerchief in the pocket beneath it. His silk and poplin shirts are custom-made (by Sulka) with a special high, soft collar. His oversized, flowing bow ties, supposedly copied from...
...Salesman Lee, who died in 1934, also ran his custom body-shop to turn out the gold-trim and other gewgaws fancied by filmdom's elite. Among them: a $50,000 body on a Rolls-Royce chassis for Comic Fatty Arbuckle...