Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...academic costume and have great esprit de corps. In general, French students maintain an attitude of professional etiquette towards each other and act with greater formality than in the United States. Students, for example, rise when the professor enters the room. Professors in certain faculties retain the old formal custom of wearing academic robes at their lectures...
...recent meeting of the Poetry Society it was decided that last year's custom of having a series of readings by prominent poets of the day would be continued. These readings are to be open to the public...
...complain because one or two unusual plans of study fail of realization through the inevitable changes in the courses given but such cases are not exceptional by any means. It should be possible to announce a year or so in advance those definitely to be omitted, and the custom now occasionally followed of announcing courses as given in alternate years could be made a fixed rule. Such procedure might add to the burden, already heavy, of the compilers of information, but the assistance it would contribute would be almost invaluable particularly in these days when Divisionals have put a premium...
Some of the bodies were painted over with pitch and went to adorn the Isle of Dogs, a custom which had the warm approval of Townsend, the worthy old Bow-street runner, as a warning to sailors who might be disposed to murder revenue officers. So Kidd, as we say, did not set the fashion in these matters, when he came down to take his place on the gallows set on the uncovered beach when the tide...
...hoped that a large number of undergraduates will be present, as the alumni are anxious that this custom be kept...