Word: custom
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Neither the President of the U. S. nor any Cabinet officer is privileged by custom to ask Congress for endorsement or condemnation of any course which he proposes to pursue. Thus President Thomas Woodrow Wilson did not know whether or not he was negotiating at Paris a treaty which would be approved by Congress. But in France it is otherwise. There, Parliament can be asked to register approval or disapproval in advance. With intent to ask such a question, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, renowned "Lion of Lorraine," went solemnly last week before the Chamber of Deputies...
...class. The Junior Prom is an old tradition at Harvard, as in most colleges, which is anticipated with pleasure. It is a pity that the indifference of a few members of the class should be more in evidence than the strong desire of many to continue the custom. It is strange that a militant move should be underway in the Sophomore class to hold a dance this year, while the Juniors should be expressing a lack of confidence or interest in one at the same time...
Holbrook admitted that there had been considerable discussion recently whether the present Junior Class should continue the custom of giving a large dance in Memorial Hall during the spring. At a meeting yesterday afternoon at which G. L. Lewis, Jr. '30, vice-president of the class, J. W. Potter '30, class secretary, and A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of last year's Junior Dance Committee, were present, it was decided that the balance of argument against the dance and in favor of it could be adjusted best by a direct appeal to the members of the class concerned...
...Revived Theodore Roosevelt Sr.'s custom of early-morning, unannounced, tours of inspection...
Like tree and carol, from land to land Christmas custom and spirit have been carried through the centuries, whether by warriors, travellers, missionaries. Thus on this one greatest feast-day of the year the World...