Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Departure From Custom...
...Harvard dramatists have seldom endeavored to perform before audiences at women's colleges. The trip of this year's Pi Eta Show, "Peter Called Prince", to Wellesley, broke a policy of 25 years' standing. The decision of the Hasty Pudding management to visit Smith marks a similar departure from custom...
...made his first visits and gave his first reading at this club more than two decades ago at the invitation of a committee of which Jerome D. Greene '97 and Langdon P. Marvin '98 were members. At that time the Charles Townsend Copeland Alumni Association was formed and the custom of holding an informal dinner on the night following the reading was instituted. As the years have passed and more and more men have realized the contribution of Professor Copeland to the life of the University, the Association has grown into a very large group. Samuel A. Welldon '04, chairman...
According to those in charge of the counting, the polling this year was slightly above the average of other years. The actual number of votes obtained by each of the various candidates was not disclosed, it being the custom set in former elections, to publish only the general results...
Ever since New York was first flooded with incandescent lighting it has been the annual custom of newspaper reporters to find out from Mr. Edison his opinion of the rising generation. Annually the ever more venerable wizard has risen to the occasion, passing judgment and giving advice. His ideas on every subject from the value of a college education to the morality, of modern dancing fill the back files of dozens of newspapers...