Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band, which the New Yorker called "the best in the country," the rally made the usual parade through Cambridge, ending at the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building. There they heard Freshman Coach Henry Lamar, Torby MacDonald, and members of the team urge them "to come out and cheer hard tomorrow." They also heard the band give encore after encore to the accompaniment of long and thunderous applause...
Sometime around the spring term of 1943, the last vestiges of "education as usual" went out the wartime window at Harvard as in other schools. The program of sixteen courses and eight terms of study for an A.B. or S.B. disappeared down the maw of preinduction acceleration. A twelve-week summer term became an established institution, and, later, for the great majority of students then in the services, a system of war service credits was instituted. Credit towards one's degree was offered for such diverse subjects as basic training, meteorology, and Japanese...
Missing from its usual place at the top of the list was the group from China, which this year numbers only four, instead of the normal complement of 15. Some of the slack, however, is taken in by the increase of the European delegation, and in that of students from the British West Indies to three...
...usual miscellany of mid-week practice pass defense, defense against Crusader plays, pass offense, a signal drill, plus a scrimmage which pitted the "A" eleven against a Jayvee squad--was on the daily menu, and the shortening hours of daylight will make that schedule a more difficult program to squeeze in with every passing...
...University has made none of its usual appeal for attendance monitors, but the cause was merely an overflow of volunteers rather than doubt about the present system, said Registrar Sargent Kennedy '28 last night...