Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Bliss Perry of the English Department will speak on "Teaching as a Career", the third lecture of a series on choosing vocations, in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. Following the custom of the preceding lectures, Professor Perry will endeavor to answer such questions as may be asked...
...scholarships and self-help which throws the burden of initiative and responsibility on the student". In a faculty letter sent to graduates of the Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary, which affiliated last spring to form the new Theological School, he states that hitherto it has been the custom of the Divinity School and of Andover Seminary to award scholarships of from $250 to $400 to any student who has an average grade of at least B. The bulk of the students in both schools have been in the past recipients of such scholarship help...
Despite the pronounced mannish tendencies of the late Dr. Mary Walker, modern Washingtonians have perhaps been inclined to consider the capital comparatively free from advocates of secentric dress. But they have not yet dined with Senator Brookhart of Iowa. Shrugging his broad shoulders contemptuously at custom, precedent, and style, he insists on informality at any cost. "If I am asked to the White House," he says, "or to any other state occasion. I shall go as I am, with cowhide shoes and the clothes I wear on the farm." It is thought that the shoes, of a rich ochre tint...
President Eliot is today celebrating his eighty-ninth birthday at his home in Cambridge. As has been his usual custom in previous years, no reception or other ceremonious observation of the anniversary will be held...
...exchanges for cotton and securities in New York are largely responsible for this drawing of funds to the financial center. As a matter of fact, however, banking funds are seeking safe and profitable loans today just as hard as lenders are seeking funds, although it is not the usual custom of the banking profession to admit this fact in practice...