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...straight vote system cannot be reconciled. The actions of the committee members in charge last night are inexcusable. Their explanations were never definite nor indicative of competence. The first defence, that the statement on the ballots to vote preferentially was a misprint, is astoundingly weak; it is generally the custom for the men in charge to proof-read such important documents as ballots. If they had done so, the mistake would never have happened. Secondly, their protest that the straight vote system has been used exclusively in past years and should be this year does not take into account...
...with her cowboy, when the audience knew about it all along. As a rule there is nothing offensive about the play, it's just dull; but there is one scene which is inexcusable. Riggs, in his search for realism, paints with a broad brush. It's an old western custom to give a chivivari to an engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon a haystack to endure with the audience ten minutes of as vulgar wise-cracking as Boston has ever heard. It is not funny or even...
Reviving its former custom of giving an annual play, the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present on Friday at 8.30 o'clock "The Dumb Boy of Manchester" at the Chapter House, 346 Harvard Street, Cambridge...
...long been the Hoover Administration's wise custom to use normal 1928 instead of sky-rocketing 1929, as a basis for comparison with...
...They were the reports of most of his Cabinet officers,* outlining conditions in their Departments up to June 30 last, and specifying future moneys they would need. Some of the reports were prefaced with perorations to the Executive, some of them were addressed, according to custom, to the House, the Senate, or both. President Hoover by courtesy could and from duty should examine them...