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Shortly after midnight on the following morning Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, was roused from his bed and summoned to the house in which the Duchess lay, according to immemorial royal custom.† At 2:40 a. m. a daughter was born. Her first act, according to witnesses, was to yawn at Sir William Joynson-Hicks...
...Defying the Persian custom that the Premier shall the crown the Shah...
Iolanthe. It has become so much a fixed custom to gurgle happy criticisms over any Gilbert and Sullivan opera?just because it is Gilbert and Sullivan?that lolanthe as produced by Winthrop Ames left a lot of people without adjectives. It is generally agreed that in this entertainment he has done the best job of any producer attempting one of the famous series in our time. The only anxiety now is that he may be distracted before he has revived everyone of the operas in an equally felicitous vein...
...both of the meetings with the Board, the undergraduates will speak to the Overseers on how, from their point of view, the College is conducted and how it can be improved. In the past, at the meetings of the Overseers, it has been the custom for the Faculty and the Administration alone to talk to the Board on the work of the College...
...University Glee Club will give the first of its series of three Tuesday night concerts on the steps of Widener Library on May 4 at 7 o'clock. It has been the custom of the club since its reorganization in 1919 to give a similar series each spring after the regular concerts of the year are over...