Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State personages and their wives are commonly accorded Courtesy of the Road by local officials. Would Critic Eldridge have this U. S. custom abolished...
Commencement Day brings to Cambridge the most impressive of the University's guests, and the awarding of honor degrees is the most interesting part of the ceremony. It is a clever custom that keeps the names secret until the actual event, and an even more desirable one that makes it necessary for each recipient to be present in person. Sometimes one wishes that the same requirement might be enforced for candidates for regular degrees. Certainly the Senior's experiences of Commencement Week have become an unforgettable memory: he has been welcomed by the graduates body into which he now enters...
...Railways, roads, steamships and sewers are signs of civilization, but they cost money. Last week, swart Ahmed Bey Zogu Mati, King of Albania, made an effective yet inexpensive gesture toward westernizing his troubled kingdom by decreeing that in future all of his subjects must give up the old Mohammedan custom of taking the name of the town or village in which they live, and adopt good European names. Setting the fashion, Albania's King dropped the village name of Mati, dropped the u from Zogu (u in Albanian means "bird") and adopted the simple, resounding title of King...
...custom which did much to mitigate the evils of the lecture-system, has lately fallen into disuse. This is the practice, once popular with the faculty, of exchanging lecture-classes occasionally, so as to give the classes the benefit of listening to experts in the fields which they are studying. For example, a lecturer in Ancient History might exchange places, for one lecture, with a lecturer in Greek Archaeology. Thus the students in both groups could enjoy the privilege of listening to men who have specialized in matters that make up a minor part of the entire course...
...British weekend in the country lasts from Friday to Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...