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...awards will be granted on the basis of the April entrance and scholarship examinations, as has been the custom for the past years, the Dean advised. The notification will be given to the scholars early enough to enable entrance in June, he said. No change has been made as to the basis for the awards, all-around promise and potentiality for leadership remaining the prime consideration of the Committee...
Both of the baesball games with Yale will be played here in a doubleheader on June 6, the Yale Athletic Association has announced. It has usually been the custom to hold one at New Haven and the second at Cambridge the following weekend, but a shift was necessitated by the accelerated academic program adopted by the Elis...
These civilian recruits will hold jobs that the Navy seldom entrusts to civilians. At Quonset they are boning up on Naval custom, procedure, tradition, by the time they don their stripes should be able to tell a fid from a marlinspike. The first class now at Quonset is scheduled ultimately to include 500 men; and the Navy expects to train many another in the future...
...timed events by "tierce, vespers and compline, three of the canonical hours of prayer." Whenever possible he said his prayers in his cabin at these hours. Says Morison: "A decent formality has always been observed aboard ships at sea, even to our own day . . . any departure from the settled custom is resented by mariners. In Columbus' ships these formalities were observed with a quasi-religious ritual, which lent them a certain beauty...
Following the custom of the past few years, the Dean's Office will give the Graduate Record examinations from February 13 to 17 to all Seniors who wish to take them. They are also open to any Juniors on accelerated programs who plan to graduate before mid-years...