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...hopes of those who love the drama and of those who pay due reverence to the glory that was Greece are raised by an announcement that the Harvard Classical Club will produce the "Philoctetes" of Sophocles next year. Once it was the custom of the Club to present a play annually, and the productions were famed for their excellence. In 1900 "Agamemnon" won the admiration of all classicists the National Students League in partichere and in Europe; even the celebrated Professor R. C. Jebb of Cambridge University praised the performance. But lack of funds has prevented several of the annual...
However true in theory, the assumption that American Instructors make friends of their students often fails to meet the fact. At Harvard the House Plan, the tutorial system, and custom combine to bring most upperclassmen into contact with members of the faculty with whom they may become acquainted. Yet "staff tables," in the dining halls, the reticence which afflicts some students, and lack of opportunity prevent many undergraduates from knowing those men by whose advice and help they would most profit...
...News and, it can be fairly said, a large part of the student body, hope sincerely that the Class of 1935 will keep its pledge, and that it will realize that by so doing it is refusing to make a foolish attempt at rejuvenating a dying custom. --Yale News...
...Maundy Thursday.* King George was reviving one of Britain's oldest customs, the distribution by the King himself of Maundy Money to worthy old people of the Parish of Westminster, a custom established by Edward III in 1363 in commemoration of Jesus' washing the disciples' feet after the Last Supper. Jesus of Nazareth performed the original pedilavium stripped, girded in a towel. Even the early Plantagenets kept their clothes on and no British King has washed any feet for centuries. The money, which comes from the King's privy purse, has been distributed every year...
...Stock Exchange has done much to encourage more telling of facts but many of the companies whose shares have been listed for some time have not complied even to (.he new custom of reporting quarterly? Most of the non-compilers report only once a year. Sales figures are reported monthly by chain stores. Cigaret companies do not give them. Standard Brands and Gold Dust do not, Borden Co. does. The biscuit companies report only profits while the rubbers give, their sales. Lambert, Drug and California Packing are among many of the miscellaneous concerns not giving the. figure...