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...Selangor. Because the Colonial Office dislike him, British pressure deprived him of his rank and forced in Son No. 3 as Crown Prince. Last week the Sultan of Selangor was reported somewhat feebly attempting to convince William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Malay custom was interfered with when Son No. 2 was also rejected...
...past time the custom prevailed for examinations to be filed by the college, in order to permit reference to the papers in cases of doubt in awarding degrees, and to insure against mistakes in grading. Recently this practice has become something of a dead letter, as there is no longer a central agency to supervise storing the books, and only in the rarest instances are students awake to the possibility of protesting their grade and demanding a check, especially when the summer exodus has taken place. Thus the tradition of not returning blue books has become a smoke-screen behind...
...clock the squad, together with the Jayvee team, and the Freshman, Jayvee, and Varsity soccer teams, leaves Back Bay station on their special train for New Haven. The football team will be quartered at the Choate School as usual, and will adhere to its time-honored custom of drinking champagne toasts to the last winning captain, John H. Dean '33, the "next winning captain," Jim Gaffney, and Coach Dick Harlow...
Hallowed by custom on many a U. S. campus are those annual rites to which prospective football material from nearby high schools is bidden to be entertained, inspected and secured. In Madison last week a University of Wisconsin faculty meeting weighed a way to make athletic proselytism foolproof. Instead of the old informality, argued serious 34-year-old Historian Robert Leonard Reynolds, why not organize a regular six-week institute each year? Promising athletes would spend the morning brushing up on their studies, the afternoon exhibiting their wares to the coach. Those who showed up well in both tests would...
There are many undergraduates who rebel at the appalling waste of time which is enforced by a custom of long years' standing. Toward these men the college authorities should adopt an encouraging attitude, instead of opposing them by such regulation as the extra course rule. Why should a man have an extra course piled on him simply because he tries to cover the work in less time than his less energetic classmates...