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...annual convention of the I. C. A. A. A. A. held in New York on Saturday, it was announced that the 1928 outdoor championship meet will take place at the University. This is in accordance with the regular custom of alternating the event between Cambridge and Philadelphia: Last spring's meet was held at Franklin Field...
...departure from the custom of previous years, there will be a buffet supper, refreshments being served from from long tables opposite the orchestra dais rather than in the individual boxes...
Criticisms such as these challenge the value of usages well grounded on tradition and custom in many of our schools. But if any progress is to be made in improving the present system, it must be by the elimination of just such deep-set evils. President Lowell has rendered valuable service to the cause of American education by his penetrating attack on them...
...sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions...
...Cabinet of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin spoke to the country, last week, through a speech which was drafted by its members but pronounced, according to custom, by His Majesty, from the Throne (see above...