Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"-a word of obscure origin-means a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time, and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia...
...Parisian custom of electing at Mi-Careme (mid-Lent) a Queen of Paris from Queens chosen by each of the 20 arrondissements, or wards, in Paris, will be discontinued. A new plan will be pursued by which each arrondissement will choose a " Bee." From these a " Queen-Bee " will be elected for the whole city. The usual festivities will be much curtailed except for the visit to the President. The Bees are to wear their own gowns instead of having " royal robes " supplied. Girls are to be picked for merit rather than for beauty, as formerly...
...class officers have decided to revive the old custom of publishing a Sophomore Blue Book. They announced last night that Willis Paine Beal '25 of Boston has been appointed editorial chairman, and James Bogert Tailer Jr. '25 of New York City has been appointed business manager of the blue book...
...probably be held in the Union although the exact location has not yet been definitely decided. Josiash Humphrey Child '25 of West wood has been appointed chairman of the Banquet Committee and all arrangements for the banquet will be in his hands. The Sophomore banquet was also and old custom before the war; the last class to hold it being the class of 1918. At the banquet it is planned to have prominent men of the University and other noted speakers address the class on various subjects. The object of the banquet is mainly to secure unity in the class...
...been decided this year to revive the ancient custom of holding competitions at the games in music, architecture, painting, and sculpture as well as in athletics...