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Following a custom instituted six years ago when the Freshmen were moved from the River to the Yard, the Union Committee has once more chosen to represent the first year men in the managing of their class affairs. Often called an arbiarily chosen and undemocratic body, the Committee in the last two years has so expanded its scope of action, functioned so efficiently, that discontent with it this year amounts to less than usual...
...Bolles instituted a new custom in fall rowing after practice Thursday afternoon. The six Varsity strokes who have been rowing this fall drew numbers from a hat and then chose up crews in the order of their draws. These six crews will practice together until Tuesday, November 9, when they will have a mile race in the basin...
...action almost unprecedented in A. B. A. history-a hot contest for election of officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead when he is chosen for the job of second vice president, thence moving up according to custom to vice president and president. At the New Orleans convention two years ago outspoken Orval Webster Adams, executive vice president of Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City and thus a representative of small unit bankers, jumped to his feet on the floor and offered the bitter and impractical suggestion that...
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What the devil do gum manufacturers do? Mr. Bowman [TIME, Sept. 13] drinks beer in a topper and a bare chest. Is this the custom? What does...