Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock, the Class of 1928 will assemble on the steps of Widener for the Senior picture. No one will be allowed in the picture unless he is wearing his cap and gown, and danger of damage to this clothing has been eliminated by the abolition of the custom of having the Freshman picture taken at the same time. In 1926 the Freshmen opened an egg barage which caused so much trouble and expense that danger of similar contests has been avoided by a college ruling. Seniors may obtain their caps and gowns at the Cooperative Society...
...been the annual custom to invite certain members of the Engineering School Faculty as guests. The guests this year will be Professor L. J. Johnson '87 and Mrs. Johnson, Professor G. M. Fair '16 and Mrs. Fair, and professor L. S. Marks and Miss A. L. Marks...
Secretary Hoover had ordered the U. S. Census Bureau to discontinue its custom of segregating Negro clerks from white clerks. Senator Stephens called this an "unfortunate action." Senator Stephens referred to "personal political advantage." He said it was a grave injustice to both races and that certain white men and women would have a Negro for their superior officer...
...time, four years ago, when the Woodrow Wilson Foundation inaugurated its custom of making occasional awards, M. Mestrovitch was asked to design the accompanying commemorative medal. He thereupon designed the Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal which has been given in turn to Viscount Cecil, Mr. Elihu Root and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. M. Mestrovitch contributed his services entirely without charge, as his personal tribute to the memory of the American President who aided the Jugoslavs to achieve national freedom and unity...
Summer is indeed "a-cuminage in". There is no surer sign of it than the advent of the spring vacation-now for once the Easter vacation-and the completion of the first batch of April hours. O custom, what crime are committed in thy name! And then yesterday afternoon, as the Vagabond was wandering along the sylvan banks of the limpid, winding Charles-somewhere up near Watertown, just this side of the abattoir-wandering be it said with no ulterior purpose but perhaps with a lurking desire to see a burnished dove and prove the business about the newer iris...