Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high-lights of the celebration. The winner became the hero of the hour when called forth to receive the plaudits of his classmates and their feminine guests. For some unknown reason, the Class of 1928 failed to confer the coveted prize upon any member of 1929 and the custom fell into desuetude...
Political commentators in the U. S., notably the late Frank I. Cobb of the Dem ocratic New York World, have often urged responsible Cabinet Government for this country. In England, Cabinet executives are not only permitted, but are required by custom to go before Parliament to explain and defend bills proposed by the party in power. In the U. S., political parties can, and regularly do, evade responsibility by shifting it, as may be convenient, from executive to legislative or vice versa...
...three wives in eight years-the first two were Indian squaws whom he married according to Indian custom. The third was a beautiful Spanish girl, Josefa. They were married by a Catholic priest...
...custom of hurling brickbats at American colleges and their system of study has by now become rather hackneyed; still, when a man so distinguished as Hamilton Holt takes up the cudgels, he is sure to get a hearing. His assault on the lecture and recitation systems at the luncheon of the Harvard Teachers' Association Saturday has drawn no little attention, for he represents not impotent battering at what is established, but construction of something new, and, as he thinks, better. Rollins College, of which he is President, is, perhaps, the most radical departure from the norm of universities in America...
...experience of American colleges with tutoring schools, and bureaus specializing in such cramming is warning enough that here is one feature of English education which is totally undesirable. There seems to be no greater evil than systematic cramming in the European usage, in this instance, analogous to the American custom. The effects on the college student are stultifying enough to enable one to imagine the mental inertia involved in submitting a plastic child to processes of intellectual indigestion similar to those obtained by patronizing a progressive tutoring school in this country...