Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very well and high-minded to point out that it has lasted for a long time already. Venerability is always a desirable thing in an institution. But mere age must not be allowed to over shadow the fundamental error that lies embedded in this pernicious custom. Today is Leap Year day. Today is the day when action should be taken...
...following is the first of a series of articles on the editorial views expressed by the "Crimson" when Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 was President of the paper. As President Mr. Roosevelt was responsible for all editorials appearing in the paper, and, as was the custom of the time, personally wrote a majority of the ods. His views, however, were of necessity modified by the opinion of the whole Board...
...architect (Franchot Tone) who reclaims from drunken oblivion a once great actress (Bette Davis). Though already engaged Tone finds himself falling in love with Miss Davis and breaks his engagement. The issue however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...
...phase of the Harvard Athletic Association's winter sports program has received a great deal of unfavorable comment. For the past few years it has been the custom for Harvard to send a relay team and individual entries to all of the important winter meets. Indeed, the annual beating administered by the Holy Cross Relay team to the Crimson runners has become almost an institution at the Knights of Columbus games. When Mr. Bingham refused to enter the whole team in the winter meets this year, sportswriters in general and the local promoters in particular castigated...
...biggest barrier in the pathway of advancement and the control of these diseases," according to Dr. Rice, is the fact that social custom taboos their discussion in the press or over the radio. Cried Dr. Rice last week: "We live in an atmosphere of high-power publicity. Let us have more of it for spreading the scientific facts on syphilis...