Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifty-eighth anniversary of the momentous change from winter hats to summer straws is being observed by the whole male population of this country and the haberdashers around the Square are planning a record sale this spring. Since the inauguration of the custom, it has become one of the most popular fashions for men, and the Straw Hat Manufacturers' Association has prepared an elaborate history of the head-wear dating from pictures of Juno on old Greek vases and coins of 350 A.D., wearing a "Stephanos", which is described as "an inverted peach basket". The first styles in America were...
...custom of the Senior Celebration was inaugurated last year and takes the place of the former picnic though the name Picnic still survives in the minds of many. Both the picnic and celebration have always been largely financed by the money extorted from the Freshman class when the pictures are taken. This year an hour and a half of strenuous supplication by the Seniors netted but the meager sum of $159.13, an amount hardly large enough to carry the entire celebration...
...things which makes the memory of University days precious to alumni is the recollection of the host of customs and traditions by which their undergraduate days were ruled. Like the Hand of Death and the Laws of the Medes and Persians, they were steadfast, unmovable, always present to remind the newcomer of the whims and fancies of his predecessors, and to serve as a connecting link between the young generation and the old. When a tradition is broken or a custom allowed to fall into disuse, something very close to the spirit of the college is taken away...
...heartless action of a New Jersey Borough Council, Princeton has suffered a loss which her sons must feel very keenly. For years past it has been the undergraduate custom to smoke in both the local moving picture houses during the progress of the evening's entertainment. This seems a slight thing, and is a measure which has often been urged by patrons of the more popular resorts along Washington Street in Boston. When in addition it is something which has been done by one's forbears time out of mind, or at least since the invention of the cinema...
...decided to continue the custom inaugurated last year of having a general meeting of student advisers in May at which the duties and work for the coming year would be explained. The new committee at its first meeting tonight will appoint 250 advisers, 125 from the coming Senior class, 90 from the Junior and 35 from the Sophomore. Letters will be sent to those men appointed telling the date and place of the meeting which will be held probably on next Tuesday in University Hall...