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...Advocate" will renew a custom of the past tonight, when it gives the first of a series of "coffee parties" in the Sanctum. Professor J. L. Lowes '03 G. will be the guest of honor...
...luncheon Mr. Morison contrary to the usual custom of asking the graduates to rise in turn, called upon the football players to speak on a subject of their choice...
...election becomes especially significant when we consider that it is the custom in Scottish universities for the student body itself to elect its Lord Rector. Lord Birkenhead, campaigning on the Unionist ticket, received 1,165 votes while Mr. H. G. Wells, as the Labor candidate, received only 353 votes. The result is indicative: whatever other changes England faces at the moment--its University men stand predominantly Conservative...
...custom to attribute every change "to the war"; but in one case, at least, it is true. Our government has found since the war that, for the first time in its entire history, its expenditures have approached near enough to the margin of its income to necessitate ordinary business methods of finance. As a result, the system which has long been found as a matter of course in the smallest private businesses has been adopted by the government, the largest business of all. That is the budget system...
...accordance with the custom of exhibiting from time to time single loans of interest, the Fogg Art Museum is now showing in its Gallery a small painting by Fra Angelico. The painting is doubtless one of a series of panels which formerly formed the predella to the San Marco Altarpiece. Other of these predella panels are in the Academy at Florence; in Munich; in the National Gallery, Dublin; and in the Louvre. The panels represent scenes from the lives of St. Cosmo and St. Damian. The scene portrayed in the panel now at the Fogg Museum doubtless represents the "lady...