Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complacent shoulders of this country is regarded not only with bitterness but with fear that through further vicissitudes Europe may become in its poverty completely subservient to the United States. For the prevention of such as eventuality, two courses are open, commercial rehabilitation with the relinquishment of custom barriers and trade competition, and more remotely and disastrously, war. And it is not least in the realization that the second possibility is often a reality when the economic balance is destroyed, that the Pan-American Union is felt necessary...
Every spring for the last few years, at just about this time, it has been the custom for the Associated Harvard clubs to send delegates to a convention in some large city, each time in a different portion of the country. Last year they gathered at Memphis; yesterday was the first of a three-days meeting at Philadelphia...
...follow the old custom of pitting two types of activities against each other? Granted the value of athleties and of other undergraduate occupations, why pretand that these are negatived by more studying? Even Harvard graduates have been loudest in deploring the fact that the education acquired by the average American college graduate is vastly inferior to that which his European counterpart receives. The finest athletes could still survive if they managed to spend a little more time with their books. Nor would they necessarily be any less useful as leaders and citizens in after life. The New York Times
This is the first dance of this nature ever to be held for college races on the Charles, and if the experiment proves a success, the tea dances will be made a regular custom...
...ancient custom of the Senior begging followed by the picture of the Freshman Class, was discontinued two years ago because of certain informalities--which played a too prominent part in the ceremony at the time...