Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polar's Recess" is one of the very ancient and revered customs at Princeton. It dates back many scores of years to the days when it was called the "Horn Spree" and when gun powder was used with less freedom than it is now. But the tradition dictates that there shall be a suspension of hostilities on Sunday evening. It is enough to disturbe the calm of the night on week days--Polar's Recess is out of order on Sunday night, and we hope that undergraduates will observe the custom to the extent of limiting their Sunday demonstration...
...Saturday, February 25. These, with the two events which were added last year, the pole-vault and the broad-jump, make thirteen events in all. The others are the dash, hurdles, 300-yard, 600-yard, and 1000-yard runs, mile run, high jump, shot-put, and relay. Following the custom of former years, the N. E. A. A. U. championship races will be held in conjunction with the triangular meet...
Among the other data were carefully prepared lists of the students with their records in each subject, which had evidently been posted in public places. Further perusal of the college news sheet reveals that this custom, as well as the others here enumerated, had been received with mixed feelings and that such terms as paternalism, laissez-faire, and indifference were common tender. At all events, it is evident that the Inca University was run on a carefully organized, well-detailed plan. Indeed, one record purporting to be a payroll indicates that the number of executive officials deans, secretaries, registrars...
...Penrose Hallowell '97 of Milton, has been chosen Chief Marshal for the Alumni Exercises at Commencement. He was elected by his classmates in accordance with the usual custom of having for Chief Marshal a representative of the class twenty-five years out of college...
...England intercollegiate wrestling championships will be decided at a meet which will be held on Wednesday, March 25 in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Dartmouth, Tech, and the University will be represented. The preliminaries will be held the night before the final matches take place. In accordance with the usual custom the contestants will be divided into the following classes: 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175, and heavyweight...