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Ever since New York was first flooded with incandescent lighting it has been the annual custom of newspaper reporters to find out from Mr. Edison his opinion of the rising generation. Annually the ever more venerable wizard has risen to the occasion, passing judgment and giving advice. His ideas on every subject from the value of a college education to the morality, of modern dancing fill the back files of dozens of newspapers...
Eating dinners is a peculiar custom of the English which has great significance. At Oxford a man's first duty is to "keep term," without which, work as he may, he cannot possibly obtain a degree. "Keeping term," brought down to its final analysis, consists in eating a given number of dinners at his college. In London, a law student at the Inns of Court must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister...
...Ambassadors are early introduced to this quaint English custom. It is now a part of the London Ambassador's duty to eat dinner with the Pilgrims on his arrival and again on his departure...
These dates are a week earlier than has been the custom in past years owing to the fact that instructors have been asked to send their grades to University Hail on Monday unless their courses had examinations during the last three days of the examination period in which case the marks will be turned in on next Saturday...
...last named of these plots was disposed of by the Associates to Maurice Firuski over two years ago. Why--was this very vital corner sold to a private owner and not to the Corporation as had been the custom? The three trustees of the group are Mr. Edmund G. Parker '77, Mr. Harold J. Coolidge '92, and Mr. Augustus P Loring Jr. '06. Mr. Loring, when questioned last night, declared that the University Associates as at present constituted had absolutely nothing to do with the University, and that they were a purely business group organized to deal in real estate...