Word: custom
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...purely social gatherings and it is extremely unusual in Oxford for strangers to fall into conversation and "make friends"--especially in the Union, where there is no "Living Room" and consequently the most frequented rooms are those in which silence is enforced either by rule or by custom. On the other hand, a man who takes part in the weekly debates, and stands for committees and offices, comes to know hundreds of men from all elements in the university. The debating hall and the committee room of the Union are the places where friendships are started. For men who have...
...straw vote for President of the United States, following the custom of previous presidential election years, will be held today for all students of the University. The polls will be open from 9 to 1 and from 2 to 4 o'clock. Law School men will cast their ballots in the smoking room of Austin Hall, all other graduates and undergraduates of the University at the Lodge of the Class of '77 Gate...
...system of seating all classes has been tried; A's in front at 9 o'clock recitations, and in back at 10, and so on; but this plan would not apply so successfully with the elective system. However, if a few more instructors would depart from the time honored custom of assigning seats now in use, it would make the matter more nearly right. There is little danger of so many of them changing as to reverse the present order and place the man catalogued under A in the same disadvantageous position as the man under Y occupies today...
Following the usual custom, the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa from the class of 1913 will hold a series of dinners this fall, to which all graduate members of the society, whether from Harvard or from other colleges, are cordially invited. These dinners are held on Monday evenings at 6 o'clock in the Phi Beta Kappa room in Memorial Hall, and at each dinner a prominent man from the University or from outside is invited to be present. It is hoped that a large number will come to the first dinner, which will be held next Monday...
Bishop Lawrence will be in Wadsworth House daily from 9 to 10 A. M., instead of from 9 to 11 A. M., as is the usual custom of Chapel preachers...