Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past years, the custom has been too much to perform Brooks House duties as necessary and unavoidable routine--tedious work which one owes to the community. That is a totally false idea,--Brooks House work can be made more interesting than any other activity in the University, if once it can be made to strike the fancy of the undergraduates, and if once the officers make it their sole "outside" activity...
...services at the Chapel were discontinued after August 10 until the opening week of the Academic Year in September. The morning services for the first week were conducted by members of the Faculty according to the usual custom. They were: Professor T. N. Carver, Professor C. Magruder, President Lowell, Professor G. H. Beale, Dr. Niles Carpenter, Rev. E. C. Moore...
Throughout the rest of the year the custom was that the preacher of Sunday should conduct the services for the succeeding days. This of course was not invariably the case, and often there were as many as five different men in charge of the daily services of a single week. The preachers who conducted the morning services from October 1 to April 1 were: Rev. H. E. B. Speight, Boston, Rev. E. C. Moore, Rev. J. R. P. Sclater, Edinburgh, Rev. W. W. Fenn, Rev. W. I. Sperry, Rev. C. L. Slattery, Bishop Coadjutor of Massachusetts, Rev. C. R. Brown...
...absurd American custom...
...fencing, has developed into a form of pleasurable exercise for the many. It is no longer necessary to wonder, when one sees an opponent's blade flash forward, whether the steel will lodge between the second and third ribs or between the fourth and fifth, as is the Sicilian custom; but merely in what manner the artistic parry one had in mind was so neatly deceived...