Word: custom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...usual custom the excess of expense above a man's ordinary rate of payment will be met by the class funds; so that it will be possible for every man to attend. The first races take place in two weeks, on April...
...third instalment of the Riant collection has arrived at the custom house...
...class crews ever really represented the full strength of the classes. Because before that the University squad was in existence during the class crew season, and took the best rowing men away from their class crews. In regard to the second objection, even granting that it were an old custom (which it certainly is not), there has never been and old custom yet that did not have to be modified and recast to suit the changing conditions. In three years time, if this plan is consistently followed, no one will ever remember that any other plan was ever employed...
...result of actual experiment and computation. I wish to show (1) That the proposed site on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets is not "out of the way." (2) That each person's idea of the convenience of a situation is largely a matter of habit and custom...
Therefore I say, build the Union on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets. It is the most available site we possess. Centre in the club as many College interests as possible and it will consequently become a rendezvous. It will even be considered convenient, and custom and usage will abolish all thoughts to the contrary. A JUNIOR...