Word: customs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Starting at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, Mr. Moore travelled to the Turkish border, and penetrated into Macedonia under a government guard. Here he came across those bands of robbers who make a business of plundering and smuggling, dividing the spoils with the Turkish custom house officials...
...today is Thursday, I should like to call the attention of the members of the Harvard Dining Association to a ridiculous custom which has been instituted of late at Memorial Hall...
Contrary to usual custom there will be practically no cage work for the baseball team this year. On this account practice began over a month later than usual, and as yet no general call for candidates has been made. Only members of last year's team and freshmen with experience have been called out. The squad at present consists of the following men: Chapin, Erwin, Jackson, Pratt, Bell, Camp, Church, O'Brien, Kinney, Huiscamp and Smith of last year's squad, and Williams, Taylor, Mallory, Madden, Beggs, Whittaker and Brooks of the freshman class...
...Atkinson '81 has been chosen chief marshal for Commencement Day. According to custom he was nominated by the class which will be 25 years out of College next Commencement, and was elected by the executive committee of the Alumni Association...
Such then is true democracy, and as such do we find it inconsistent with true reverence? It is argued that American children are not respectful junior reverent towards their parents, because of the democratic custom, now in vogue among parents, of suggesting what is to be done, not ordering. The true criterion of reverence is the attitude in later years. Never before were aged parents treated with so great kindness as today. Is this inconsistent with true democracy. The same relation between teacher and pupil has brought about far greater reverence than the old dictatory attitude...