Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justified the compliment. A mediocre runner, at times an uninspired field-general, Harvard's captain has taken longer than it took Booth to achieve the status of a No. i college football hero. But now his fame and popularity are such that even the South Boston "townies," whose custom it has long been to cheer for Harvard's opponents, fill the bowl end of Soldiers Field to whoop for Harvard. Even Boston and Cambridge police are on Harvard's side...
...also been greatly improved. The spring of 1889 saw the first spring practice. Captain A. J. Cumnock '91 originated a crude, brutal machine which was the first tackling dummy used at Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made the team doctor and it was he who introduced the custom of the players' retiring from the field between the halves for rub-downs and medical attention...
...also been greatly improved. The spring of 1889 saw the first spring practice. Captain A. J. Cumnock '91 originated a crude, brutal machine which was the first tackling dummy used at Harvard. Dr. W. M. Conant '79 was made the team doctor and it was he who introduced the custom of the players' retiring from the field between the halves for rub-downs and medical attention...
...George, having no choice, nominated for re-election the previous Speaker (who is always renominated) aristocratic Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy. He, by another custom, sat in compulsory "modesty" on an obscure Government back bench last week. Next the Clerk, still silent, swung his extended arm from Government to Opposition, pointed to Laborite Will Thome who promptly seconded the stereotyped nomination. It then became the duty of Nominator Sir George and Seconder Mr. Thorne to advance upon the modest Speaker designate and "drag him to the Chair...
...missionaries. Dr. Giffen and his wife left Omdurman, found a tribe 400 mi. to the south called the Shullaks. ''They were all over six feet, and the only people I ever had to look up to, always. We had considerable difficulties with the language at first. . . . Tribal custom called for the removal of the four front teeth of all adults. Consequently, they lisp almost everything they say." Soon, nevertheless, Dr. Giffen erected a mission, organized a school, translated two gospels and baptized 600 lisping Shullaks...