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...Even the blood relationship of brothers is as nothing compared to the friendship of 'Bonfils and Tammen,' to link your names in the fashion it has become the custom to do the country over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Students who are looking forward to the revival of an old custom in the University will soon have their wishes gratified, as the new Harvard-dinner plates are nearly ready, and are expected to arrive in this country sometime in March. Approximately 3600 dozen plates out of the original order for 4000 dozen have already been sold. Orders are still being received for the some three or four hundred dozen remaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD DINNER PLATES WILL ARRIVE IN MARCH | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...such a course need not be trivial or superficial. Professor Mather believes that with the student's purpose definitely known and concentration excluded the curriculum could comprise an organized plan of survey course that would merit, in accordance with the European custom, a baccalaureate degree. And the high standards of such segregation would allow in the scholarship, free from extra-curricular activity, in the senior college would justify the granting of a degree of Master of Arts to its graduate. The baccalaureate given to graduates from Professor Mather's junior college, however, could not compare with the same degree given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REDUCING THE OVERHEAD | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...ocean steamers coming right up to it from Galveston Bay, 50 miles away, and 17 railroads heading in from all directions. Jesse Holman Jones's hotel, the Rice, will doubtless be headquarters. Smaller hotels such as the Lamar and Warwick, will take in overflow and there is an old custom in Texas, which Houstonians practice specially, of throwing open private homes when the city is host to some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Houston | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Angeles posted $10,000 for a Golf Tournament as is the annual custom, and drew famed, formidable golfers. At Miami, Fla., the prize totalled $3,000, but the field was almost as formidable. MacDonald Smith, Long Island professional, won in the West with rounds of 74, 70, 69, 71; in the South Gene Sarazen was paid first prize for shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter Sport | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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