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Following the old custom which had to be abandoned during the war, the University Glee Club will sing on the steps of Widener next Monday at 7 o'clock. The program will consist of light songs and outsiders will be invited to join in the singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club to Sing on Widener Steps | 5/24/1922 | See Source »

Those of us who have had more opportunity than most to hear and study the beat of English may take the matter even more to heart. Accepted though the custom may be of poking fun at "English A" and its strictures, there was much wisdom behind its inauguration Mr. Gavit has had some very decisive things to say on the subject, "outsider" though he may incidentally, we must prove our rights to an education at Harvard if Harvard is to mean anything in the future, and when a "red-cap" shows us the way, he if only in a single...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT'S ME" | 5/20/1922 | See Source »

...spread and dance will be held in Memorial Hall at 8 o'clock on Monday of Commencement week, and according to the annual custom, 28 Junior Ushers, chosen yesterday, will serve that evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE USHERS FOR 22 SPREAD AND DANCE | 5/19/1922 | See Source »

...Christmas Eve it is the custom here for the sophomores to go about to the various dormitories and to the houses of the community and sing the Christmas carols which they have been practising for weeks. This year Christmas Eve was calm and clear and the ancient carols...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUMEROUS ACTIVITIES INDICATE SUCCESS OF HARVARD MISSION WORK AT ROBERT COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE | 5/18/1922 | See Source »

This cave had been closely blocked during the course of the ages, and when we entered we heard reverberating in it the echoes of strange Inca sounds that were the names of the dishes served there. It is a reasonable assumption that the custom was for each patron to shout aloud the name of his desired dish, and it would be hurled deftly out at him from an auxiliary cave in the rear. One peculiarity common to many of these food-shops was their small size; so small were most of them that there could scarcely have been room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 5/17/1922 | See Source »

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