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...James Yule--has lighted the Yule log at Kirkland since...
Others didn't think the partial change would disturb things. "As long as they do the work, we'll be happy," said James Yule of Kirkland House. Fritz Rau, at Lowell, thought the porters would be "all right." He hopes they can be depended on as much as the maids, whom he feels are "steadier." Rau had students working under him before, as janitors. "Their work was good," he said, "when they worked. The trouble was that they'd often decide not to come...
Died. Annie Henrietta Yule (Lady Yule), 75, one of the world's richest widows, whose husband (and cousin) Sir David ("Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left her some $100 million when he died in 1928; in St. Albans, England. She preferred animals to people, kept a racing stable and a menagerie, bought broken-down draft horses and put them to pasture on her estate...
Every Monday night the tutors, guests, some students, and the Housemaster don dinner jackets and eat on the dias at the end of the dining hall. This custom is called high table; another Lowell tradition is the lighting of a yule log at the annual Christmas dinner...
...tradition at U.S.C. A pink-faced, bouncy man who gives the readings his dramatic best, he has had enthusiastic audiences since he began. Last week he went from Dickens to Benchley, from a medieval carol ("From far away we come to you . . .") to Ogden Nash ("Epstein, Spare that Yule Log!"), to poems written by soldiers at Tobruk...