Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparently a custom in Philadelphia not only to discover that ballots cast for an opponent of the machine are invalid or have been discreetly mislaid in the counting, but to cast votes freely for those who have for some reason or other been unable to come to the polls at all. A Dartmouth undergraduate coming down to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving lamented that he had not been able to get down before to vote for Wilson, only to discover that he had voted for Vare after all. Cases of this sort are multiplying as the investigation of the Committee of Seventy...
Technically, membership on the Governing Board of the Union is of one year's duration, but reappointment of all the members by the president of the Board has been the custom for several years...
...Samson complex, or the belief that unshorn locks and bearded checks will aid an aspirant to examination honors is the most frequently observed oddity of local scholars. Associated with this habits is the custom of wearing the same the and sitting in the same beat during tests. Almost two out of five fall victims to this Idiosucracy...
...derivation of one old American custom, the avoidance of igniting three cigarettes with one match, is attributed by Professor Tozzer to two possible sources. According to one belief, the Roer sharpshooters are responsible for this eccentricity. In 1900, the British "Tommics" discovered that two cigarettes might be lighted on one fuse but that if time was taken for a third, latalities followed...
...personal facilities the most remarkable is perhaps that of always donning in left shoes first. The custom among athletes of not wearing new equipment on game days is also observed by many students...