Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...university. For four years they have been trained to think alike, dress, and act alike. The individual who has steeled himself against convention is unusual and difficult to find. The student who dares to stand up and criticise institutions or organizations which are wrong but which are tolerated because custom has permitted to endure only invites criticism and unpopularity from the rest of his fellows. Initiative is often discouraged because new ideas have never been in vogue. Purdue Exponent...
...open as usual in all departments except the Lower Reading Room, which will be closed. The general Reading Room, the Delivery Room, and the Farnsworth Room will be open at the usual hours. In closing-the Lower Reading Room this vacation the authorities have departed from the previous custom of keeping all departments open...
...Senior Class Day Committee. P. D. Morrison '20 submitted the best drawing for the Yard tickets, the design of R. G. Ellinger '20 for the Stadium tickets was judged best, and S. A. Gross '20 designed the one chosen for the Memorial Hall and Gymnasium tickets. Following the usual custom two free tickets to Sanders' Theatre, four to the Stadium, five to Memorial Hall, and fifteen to the Yard will be given to the winners...
...will be given an opportunity today to try out for the managership and assistant managership of the 1923 debating team. Candidates will report to B. Ulin '20 at 28 Plympton Street this evening at 7 o'clock when details of the competition will be explained. Contrary to the usual custom little or no advertising will be solicited, the work consisting mostly of selling tickets and performing miscellaneous duties. At the end of the two-weeks competition two men will be chosen, the manager to take the trip to Princeton and an assistant to manage the Yale debate in Cambridge...
Next Wednesday evening, March 24, at 9 o'clock in the Dinning Room of the Union Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, of the Department of English, will read selections from O. Henry Kipling, and Dickens. In selecting the Dining Room for his reading, Professor Copeland is going back to his custom of past years...