Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year it is custom of the Council to make some report to President Lowell regarding conditions that exist in the College. One of the Council's greatest reports came in 1926, when E. C. Aswell '26 and W. I. Nichols '26 set forth in their report a modified version of the House Plan as it is now in operation. This started from the CRIMSON platform for the year 1925-26. The initial plan of the committee of the Council to study educational methods suggested a course reduction and more tutors, among them older men who were professors and instructors...
During the past few years, Professor Lake has alternated on giving English 35 A and B during the first half year, courses on the Old and New Testament which have proved very popular. In the second half year it has been his custom to conduct exploring expeditions in Palestine but this year he will give English 35 B during the second half year...
Vice President Curtis opened the Republican campaign in Pennsylvania last week with his first speech since August, at Fogelsville where Boss Matthew Quay started the custom of starting campaigns in 1908. Since he declared Dry in his speech accepting renomination, many a Wet Pennsylvania Republican had protested the Vice President's appearance in the State. Nominee Curtis, canny politician, ducked Prohibition, talked tariff and farm relief, deluged his listeners with his favorite statistics...
...duties. The company had much trouble with labor unions in Havana, could not speed production, teach new methods. In Trenton, while the wrapping will be done by hand, automatic Cellophane wrappers will handle 1,000 cigars for 90? against the $4 manual cost in Cuba. The ancient custom of each operator taking six cigars a day gratis will be abandoned and Trenton's girlworkers will hear a piano instead of the "reader" who entertains all Cuban cigarmakers with stories and political discussions, often...
...hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...