Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloom hardly rubbed off their cheeks. But after a year together they are supposed to have outgrown childish things, and to act, if not as men, at least as "college men." By senior year, the average undergraduate has supposedly earned the title of "dignified." But of late a custom has developed among seniors which leads to the supposition that some have reached a second childhood; for the noisy "Reinhardt Night" seems to be extending itself to include every or any night that is convenient...
...objection to the custom is not primarily because of the false grade that a student may get from using printed notes, although that is an important factor. I am considering chiefly the injury that the student is doing to himself. The object of a college education is the development of mental muscle. If Jones lifts the dumbbell, Smith's muscle is not strengthened. Similarly, if Smith passes an examina...
Evolution and Heredity. The "keynote speech" was delivered by Dr. J. Playfair McMurrich, professor of anatomy at the University of Toronto, President of the Association in 1922 (by custom, the presidential address is given by the president of the preceding year). He devoted his time to a retrospective view of biological science, and particularly to the theory of organic evolution and its place in the scheme of life. Evolution is not dead, he said, nor can it be killed by legislative enactment. Any one who refuses to believe in it today is ignorant or bigoted. In its main outlines...
Henry Cabot Lodge, senior Senator from Massachusetts: "I made a call on President Coolidge, leaving my overcoat, as is the custom of presidential callers, in Secretary Slemp's room. Newspapers reported that, coming out, I 'walked jauntily away' with the ulster of Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, little noting the spacious effect the garment gave me until I encountered 'strange articles' in the pockets. Retracing my steps, I encountered Henry Cabot Lodge, III, my grandson, whilom Harvard student, now a reporter on the Boston Transcript. But I refused to grant him an interview...
Horace Walpole-age could not wither nor custom stale the vigor of his prejudices...