Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in its 53 years of continuous publication the CRIMSON is departing from the time honored custom of holding only one Freshman competition of 11 weeks starting in the spring. The innovation takes the form of a 1930 competition for the News Department opening at 7 o'clock tonight which will last only seven weeks, ending just before the Mid-year period. At the same time amateur photographers among the members of the Sophomore, class interested in the wide range of picture taking opportunities offered by the Photographic Department of the CRIMSON will be given a chance to start...
...Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers...
What Bacchanalian tendencies of dress or undress, what custom of venturing forth in airy raiment is throttled by the following rule remains a asrtorial secret...
...been the custom in past years, the Department of Physical Education will organize a basketball league of teams in the Graduate Schools to play a series of games during the winter. D. J. Kelly, of the Physical Education Department, will call a meeting within the next ten days of representatives from the various classes in both the Law and Business Schools, and from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to consult regarding the organization of teams and the arrangement of a schedule...
...that Mr. Jim Tully has out-lined the finer points of vagrancy and Mr. Vachel Lindsay is reviving the custom of wandering poets, the National Association of Hoboes, meeting in convention at Omaha, has come to the realization that its members are gradually being admitted into the fellowship of respectable citizens. In order to separate the sheep from the goats it announces a difference between the hobo and the lowly bum, defining the former as "merely a migratory worker who travels to participate in construction work and to help with the harvests": a bum, on the other hand...