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...your issue of Oct. 8, under the caption "Palestine,'' you indulge in ridicule of what millions of Jews and of sympathetic Christians regard as a custom worthy of respect. It is the religious service observed for centuries by the Jews of Jerusalem at the "Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped...
TIME, never professionally humorous, regrets the semblance of humor which marred its factual report of what occurred when Jewish worshippers were dragged (some by the beard) from the Wailing Wall by brutal Arab police. The report chiefly concerned physical violence. It concerned only incidentally a religious custom which, on other occasions, TIME has described to the satisfaction of many a devout...
...rushed to completion the new little street of four-room cottages in Thorpe-le-Soken. She proposes to rent them to needy and worthy tenants for only "four and six" a week (4 shillings, 6 pence = $1.09). The ceremony of throwing bread and coals revived an old Essex custom equivalent to "house warming." The flung loaves and chunks are supposed to bring luck and prevent occupants of the new house from ever being without food, warmth...
...years past it has been the custom, after Navy Games, to meet the returning team at the station. There is an old stage-coach at the Point that has a history. The Corps has always taken it to the station and drawn it back by hand laden with the battered team. The announcement of the new captain has always been made from its top by the captain of the preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time...
Following the custom adopted in former presidential election years, the CRIMSON is going to hold a presidential straw ballot of the University on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, October 24 to 25. The object is to obtain and preserve a record of both the College and graduate schools' 1923 choice for the White House honor...