Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sports were forbidden and the "blue" laws were strictly enforced. The day was devoted to church activities and sober conversation about the good fortune of the colonists. During the holiday dinner, 'was the custom in many households for the father to read sermons aloud...
Professor Copeland, in accordance with his usual custom, has not announced in advance what selections he will read. In the past he has read from Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Dunne, Thackeray, and many others, as well as from the Bible...
Continuing an old custom of giving a program together on the eve of the Yale game, the clubs will sing tonight under the direction of Marshall Bartholomew of Yale and G. Wallace Woodworth '24, instructor in Music...
...continuance of the old custom of having a joint concert before the Yale game, the Glee Clubs of Harvard and Yale are scheduled to present a program together in Sanders Theatre next Friday at 8.15 o'clock...
...been amused by the old typographical character for the lower case "s". It is no funnier to one who is familiar with the period than the fact that men then were knee-breeches and not trousers. But Mr. Thompson quotes paragraph after paragraph to show how ludicrous this custom was, and it affords him an opportunity for a bad pun or two. There are other puns. The movement of the fleet during the evacuation of Boston by the British in 1776 reminded one witness, it is recorded, of a "moving forest." To which Mr. Thompson adds: "a Birnam Wood moving...