Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used to be the custom for students to subscribe for a professional band to play at football games but with the advent of the University Band this custom was done away with. Instead of a small professional organization at only the bigger games, rooters for the Crimson, for three seasons, have sung to the accompaniment of, and have paraded behind their own band...
...Under Cover" does not seem to have suffered from years of retirement, even the problem of who's who being as perplexing as when we first saw William Courtenay in the riddle. Be-derbied custom inspectors are fascinating creatures, especially when they soften to $30,000 bribes! And who will tire of the clever crook and the daring detective--the be-all and end-all of adventure in Long Island Society--stage version? In addition to the thrills there is plenty to laugh at, by which we mean genuine laughter...
President Lowell and the Presidents of the universities of North Carolina, Michigan and Leland Stanford Junior University will give the official greetings to Dr. Livingston Farrand this afternoon when he is inaugurated President of Cornell University. This is in accord with the usual custom at university inaugurals, by which the heads of four representative institutions are invited to bring the official greetings from the colleges of their sections of the United States. These will be but four of the presidents of fifty colleges and universities present at the ceremonies...
...state what everyone knows? Because no more convincing argument could be found than Saturday's cheering to prove that we are not in need of and do not want "professional cheer leaders." We said in our last issue that Saturday would be a test of the custom of having the captains of the major sport teams act as cheer leaders. There can be little question now, we believe, that the tradition is a sound one; and infinitely to be preferred to the proposal of having competitions for leaders of the contortionist style...
During the past week there has been expressed no little dissatisfaction with the present cheering situation. Part of the criticism has been directed at the lack of a central cheering section and part at the custom of having the captains of major sport teams act as cheer leaders. Last night it was announced that sections 32 and 33 are reserved for H. A. A. ticket holders. This means that in those sections there will be no one but Harvard supporters, unencumbered and no longer obliged to compete with outsiders interested not in seeing Indiana win but in seeing Harvard lose...