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...custom never returned. That was the Christmas box of the English poor. Before the Reformation every poor apprentice, journeyman, pardoner, and begging friar had his Christmas box, and into it the merry Englanders deposited their alms. Then on Christmas Eve, when the box had got full and heavy, the poor apprentice and his like would break the box open and thereupon have a jolly Christmas. Only the tightest Scrooge refused its invitation, and always was he followed by six months of bad luck...
Following his last year's custom, Coach Judson had two professional heavyweights, Eustace and Binkley, give short exhibition matches with him yesterday in order to show the members of the squad certain principles and methods to be followed in wrestling under the amateur rules. Various professionals will come out throughout the season and assist Coach Judson in his work...
...there is a possibility that there will be one later in the season. The season will run from January 5 to March 23 and will include nine matches for the University and eight for the Freshman team. All matches are to be held by telegraph as has been the custom for several years. The definite schedule has not yet been approved by the Athletic Committee...
Thirty new men have been elected to the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa by the members of the order now in college, and have been approved by the Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Committee, of which President Lowell is chairman. According to the regular custom, 40 Seniors and 12 Juniors were proposed for election, from which 22 Seniors and 8 Juniors were chosen. The names of the new members, arranged by classes in alphabetical order, are as follows...
...Another thing that I think might be interesting to Americans is the German custom of staying only one year at the university from which one intends to graduate. A student will frequently attend three or four universities in the course of his four years of undergraduate life, remaining for only two terms at the institution from which he graduates. Our college terms are from May through July and from November through February...