Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President went, as custom required, to the Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. By custom he delivered a speech on Peace. Contrary to custom he said something pointed. His argument: The Kellogg treaty for the renunciation of war is a "declaration" of "faith and idealism" which must be followed by "action." It must mean "all armament hereafter shall be used only for defense." But "we are still borne on the tide of competitive building. . . . Fear and suspicion . . . will never disappear until we can turn this tide toward actual reduction." He insisted on finding a "rational yardstick" for naval comparisons...
...establish the habit of going to them among the student body. If for instance one knew that on a certain day of each week or even each alternate week there was to be a concert, he would get into the habit of always keeping that evening free, a custom quite common in the English Universities. The conditions of the present gift easily allow of such use and the fact that many Universities far outdistance Harvard in this field demands that the Music department give careful attention to its possibilities...
...recent "editorial" which the press quoted from the Harvard Crimson, to the effect that the custom of honoring the dead on Memorial Day is "wearisome," and that the Sargent murals in Widener Library are "offensive to humanity," is creating the usual impression--that this reflects the average Harvard undergraduate...
Next day the Rules Committee met, prepared to censure the undiscovered "leaky" Senator, subpoenaed Pressman Mallon. By ancient custom and courtesy, though not by rule, one representative at a time of the four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses of the Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette...
...they must be retained, have them chosen by a form of competition? In order to prevent the stigma of "office-seeker" from being attached to any individual, the contestants should be named by the nominating committee, with the possibility of adding names by petition as is now the custom. This system could be successfully applied at least to the offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should not be submitted anonymously so that there might be some room left for choices in personality...