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...present, the system of traffic direction about the Square is in keeping with Cambridge's ancient Egyptian custom of getting along without curb-stones. Pedestrians are directed very much as the occasional herds of cattle are conducted, alive or dead; through the Square to the Watertown Abattoir. After all, as State Commissioner Goodwin points out, people on foot do not need any license to operate. And it would be humane for the city authorities to give them an equal chance with other traffic...
...late years it has been the custom to divide the time of the meeting into a day of work, with speeches and attention to graduate problems, and a day for sport. This scheme will be carried out again this year with slight modifications. The meeting will open officially on Thursday evening, June 15, at the Harvard Club of Boston, at which time the routine business will be disposed...
Reviving the custom in use for several years, but omitted last year because of the European trip, eighty members of the University Glee Club gave an informal concert on the steps of Widener Library Monday night. The first part of the program was rendered by the Glee Club to an audience of 250 undergraduates and some 200 others, the members singing "Come Thou, Oh Come" by Bach, Chadwick's "Ecce iam Noctis", Handel's "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite", and "Dainty, Fine, Sweet Nymph", by Morley...
...scholarship is annually presented to that member of the Freshman class who, in academic record, achievements in athletics and other extra-curriculum activities, is considered to have done most for his class. In awarding this scholarship the Sophomore class adheres to the custom established by the class of 1919, which awarded the first memorial scholarship, to F. K. Bullard '20. The classes of 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923 continued the custom by presenting scholarships to J. A. Sessions '21, H. F. Colt '22, M. W. Self '23 and Percy Jenkins '24 respectively...
...next meet in which the University competed was the Penn Relay Carnival. Following the custom set up last year Coach Bingham decided to make entries only in the special events and accordingly did not send any relay teams to the games. Captain Brown and Marshall were chosen to represent the University in the hammer-throw. Marshall did not place, but Brown won second to Baker of Princeton, whom he subsequently defeated both in the Princeton and Intercollegiate meets...