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When they come to balance the books on the college careers to which Finis has been written in official decorative script, the Class of 1933 may well conclude that the expenditure of four years according to the dictates of custom has not been a totally profitable venture. It is a pitiful criticism of the academic routine that one successful graduate of the Class of 1908 attributes his success to luck, and returns to Cambridge with no other memories than those which prompt him to a giddy round of those pleasures from which anw uneducated man could derive full gustatory delight...
Following a traditional custom, 11 yachts in three different classes started from Scotch Caps, off Milton Point, in Rye, New York, last Wednesday evening, in the American Yacht Club's eighth annual overnight race to the scene of the festivities of the Harvard Yale rowing regatta in New London...
...morning, as was my daily custom, I went to the Palace and into the sleeping quarters of the President at 5:15 to waken him for his daily exercise, massage and bath; and told him that Armando Andre had been shot a few hours before by "sawed-off" shot guns, through an open window in a house opposite his home, as he was trying to get his latch-key into the keyhole, which was jambed full of cut-off tooth picks. Machado exclaimed "No! That can't be true! It is not possible! Did you see it?" I replied...
...year the Commissioner was John Buchan, 57, famed author, third commoner and first "son of the manse" (minister's son) ever to get the appointment. Lord High Commissioner Buchan stayed at Holyrood Palace, where the town officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting and cavalry escort. Cannon thundered a royal salute. The Lord High Commissioner read a letter...
Following the custom inaugurated by Eliot House this spring, Leverett House will present its first play in the House Dining Hall Monday night at 8.30 o'clock. The play, "Ten Nights in a Barroom," is a typical temperence melodrama of the bygone days and involves much bloodshed and frequent Carrie Nation tactics in its denunciation of drink and the terrors that it brings to the home. All members of the University are invited, and any lady accompanied by an escort will be admitted...