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...renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched that violent protests are made at any disturbance of them...
Today the program for Class Day is officially announced, and in almost every respect it is the same program that was followed last year, and the year before, and through the years before that. For such rigid adherence to a very beautiful and a very impressive custom Harvard should be grateful indeed...
Wherever I went among the Satellites I found one custom universally observed. Evidently it is a survival of some ancient tribal ceremony. Upon every occasion of rejoicing or lamentation, it doesn't matter which, the Satellites gather together to perform the mysteries of the "Passingout". For this purpose they immerse themselves in an occult liquid which possesses the incompatible qualities of both water and fire, for it looks like the one but acts like the other. What I have seen of this religious ceremony of the "Passingout" gives me excellent grounds for belief in the transmigration of souls...
...been the custom for years the selections given will be chosen from some of Professor Copeland's favorite authors, Kipling, Sassoon, Fielding and Donald Ozlea Stewart. He has not yet announced the exact passages he will read on this occasion...
Subscriptions for the Alumni Bulletin among members of the Senior class will be solicited this year through a board, instead of by one man, as has been the custom in the past...