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...decided to continue the custom inaugurated last year of having a general meeting of student advisers in May at which the duties and work for the coming year would be explained. The new committee at its first meeting tonight will appoint 250 advisers, 125 from the coming Senior class, 90 from the Junior and 35 from the Sophomore. Letters will be sent to those men appointed telling the date and place of the meeting which will be held probably on next Tuesday in University Hall...
Following out a custom, inaugurated last year the Senior Class will hold a celebration in the Yard tomorrow evening. Taking the place of the famous Senior picnic of the past, the celebration will be open only to Seniors and will be held in the Yard between Holworthy, and Grays which will be fenced off for the occasion...
...tempted, of course, to remember Hawthorne's creative genius smothered in a custom house or of Burns ganging ale in Dumiries; but that would be a pitiful exhibition of mid-Victorianism. And just a pitiful would be the counter suggestion that the fault of the grammar schools lies in political school boards and underpaid teachers; or that a little logic and a little disagreeable work is very "good for the soul." No, small Cousin Biliee must henceforth be allowed to vent his creative impulse on the fly leaf of a first edition "Ulysses", and improve the hitherto uncolored wood-cuts...
Following the usual custom, the Sophomore Blue Book, a volume supplementing the Freshman Red Book, will be distributed free to all Sophomores after the dinner. Members of the Union may sign for the $1.50 due on the dinner tonight, but non-members must the prepared to pay. All members of the class of 1926 are eligible to attend...
...Coolidge, continuing a custom revived from the past by Mrs. Harding, announced the dates of three large lawn parties?...