Word: customs
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...centre page drawing, although evidently intended to be taken seriously is yet very funny from the artist's curious conception of horses and his grotesque style. The best individual picture are a halfpage drawing representing an optical illusion, and two small sketches illustrating rather time worn jokes. Contrary to custom, the long articles are easily the best reading of this number. Deserving of especial mention is a clever take-off on a recent Advocate story, and a pretended unpublished letter written by Li Hung Chang...
...play which will be given by the Cercle next year will in all probability be "L'Amour Medecin" by Moliere. The play will be given in December instead of the spring as has been the custom for the last two years. It is though that December is a much more fitting time to give the play, in that there are so many theatrical performances in the spring...
...report of the manager of the Cercle play shows that the profits from "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" were over $700. According to the custom of the Cercle in past years, one hundred dollars will be presented to the French Department for the departmental library...
...scheme is also on foot to establish annual prizes, to be awarded at the final trials for future Yale and Princeton debates, to the man who makes the best showing of the evening. This custom is observed at Yale...
...made of the geographical influence of the country on its early colonization and history. The period of colonial history is thoroughly treated and from the formation of the Union down to the present day the constitutional as well as political history of the country is carefully analyzed. With the custom of the modern historian more attention is paid to the growth of the constitutional liberty of the nation than to its military achievements, but the latter are by no means neglected. Every event of any importance in our history is described and particular care has been taken concerning the accuracy...