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Since Boat Race custom requires the losing crew of the year before to row out to the stake boats first, Oxford was first at the starting line last week. For the first half of the 4¼-mile course, the boats raced on almost even terms. As anticipated, Cambridge was ahead thereafter, five lengths at the finish...
...King Edward VIII announced that he will carry on his late father's revival of the old custom of personally giving, on Maundy Thursday (April 9), Maundy Money to "deserving" poor to the number of the King...
Well might Japanese financiers shiver as the Cabinet declaration went on to promise to "reform finance and economy . . . through measures for improvement and stabilization of the people's living so that all the subjects of the Emperor may enjoy their life. . . . The Government will not be shackled by custom but will effect reforms suited to the times...
...other years," Captain Palmer said "It has been the custom to notify the captain of the opposing team if you were to use a substitute. This year this has not been the case, and we were very much surprised to see Boyle in the game...
...custom until 1813, this diploma was engrossed rather than engraved as later became the case. The size of the document in those days depended upon how much the individual recipient wanted to pay. The president merely granted the degree, and the student had to seek his own engrosser and arrange his own price...