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This Class Day, however, will carry with it a peculiar significance that will set it apart from the long line that has preceded it. This year marks the last time that the unity of the Senior class is preserved by the custom of rooming in the Yard. The House Plan, in order to obtain the desired cross-section of College classes, will give the Commencement Exercises an appeal to the individual about to graduate, rather than to the class. Whether this influence, will be small or large, good or bad, it is safe to say that, in the future, classes...
Countrary to the custom of recent years, the University crew squad will return to Cambridge for workouts during the spring vacation, according to an announcement made yesterday by Coach Whiteside. The three University crews will return on Tuesday, April 8 ready for afternoon practice and will workout daily on the Charles through Saturday, April...
Right out, Left out, what remained but to dissolve Parliament and hold a fresh election? In any other European country this would have been done last week in similar circumstances. In France, however, it is not the custom to hold an election of Deputies between the fixed periods of four years. "Let the politicians patch things up as best they can," is Jean Frenchman's thrifty motto, for an election is costly, and the French as a race would always rather mend a broken flower pot with infinite trouble than buy a new one for 50 centimes...
...behind a serviceable net that covered the stage, and it was entirely au fait for the audience to hurl apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, other ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column and a half of humor, satire, parody and biting sarcasm...
...that Mr. & Mrs. Clarke had taken the precaution of being married at the municipal building chapel the morning before the Bahai wedding. Subsequent investigation proved that the judicious civil ceremony was quite in keeping with the gentle faith of Bahai, one of whose principal tenets is tolerance of established custom...