Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom originated in one of the Houses last Spring must also be discontinued and returned to a natural design. It was arranged for all men living in one entry to eat together, the purposes being to make contacts between these students possible. The plan because it was based on so artificial a segregation was highly unsatisfactory to the students and met with negligible success...
...difficult to understand the attitude of the Princeton authorities, an attitude meriting no other name than intolerance. The custom of forced attendance at church is a gross anachronism. More significant, it is a serious impediment to the cause of religion, struggling mightily to adapt itself to a changing world. To attempt to stimulate religious belief by cramming it down a man's throat is folly. The normal individual not only resents such a practice, but will have a lifelong prejudice against the food of which he partakes so grudgingly...
...minutes before ten one morning last week in his chambers on the sixth floor of Chicago's old Federal Court Building. Judge James Herbert Wilkerson initiated the Northern Illinois judicial district into a new custom by donning the first black robes ever to be worn in Chicago. Then he stepped into the courtroom to open case No. 26,900, the United States of America v. Samuel Insull and 16 codefendants. The charge: using the mails to defraud in the selling of $143,000,000 of securities in the Insull-controlled Corporation Securities...
...special Long Island R. R. trains that ran out from Manhattan in 40 minutes, orchids were peddled instead of candy, cigarets or papers. At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho. Famed Poloist-Comedian Will Rogers, just back from a round-the-world trip, motored straight to Meadow Brook to greet the members of the West team that had already lost one game in the two-out-of-three polo series against the East. Said he: "It's all right, boys, I'm here...
...there are records of men being dismissed for stealing firewood with which to break windows, stealing money, and carrying the answers to the first fifteen problems of the Algebra examination into the examination with him. In defense of the last, the student claimed that it was the accepted custom except for the first fifteen students who were not supposed to carry the answers. But the culprits were all re-admitted after writing a series of abject apologies, because the college could not afford to lose the business...