Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the burials were unearthed, the party observed that a bowl had been placed over the face of each body, and in the center of the bowl was a round hole. This custom is closely allied to a similar one of the prehistoric Indians of California...
...team at the Ohio State University. The Athletic Board has abolished captains. Henceforth the team (in any sport) will have a field leader, appointed by the coach before the game. Campus politics so tangled themselves in the election of team captains by the team members (after the custom of most colleges) that Ohio teams were weakened. The Athletic Board decided there should be less strife & feeling in electioneering; more strife & feeling against opponents on the playing field...
...dealing with the nativity of Christ. This old French piece was translated especially for the Club by D. F. Robinson '26. Last year the presentation was of Spanish origin. Miracle plays are common throughout Europe: but in the United States their production is rare. The Dramatic Club instituted the custom of presenting a Miracle play six years ago, and the success of the enterprise, as well as the interest shown, has led to its continuance...
...following his death, as is the custom, the late Sultan was laid to rest in Fez, a solemn ceremony being held in the Great Mosque. All the high dignitaries of the land were present. French Resident General Theodore Steeg paid his last respects to the dead monarch before the great catafalque that bore his corpse, but he was not allowed to enter the Mosque, as none but Moslems...
Before the Rinehart custom began, however, there was another means of getting students to put their heads out of the windows and shout. All through the nineteenth century, whenever there came across the Yard a woman, be she young, middle-aged, or old and wrinkled, the cry went forth "Heads Out!" and windows were flung up as other students took up the shout. With the coming of the Gibson girl to the "Annex"--in other words Radcliffe--and the end of the Victorian age, the number of female figures in the Yard increased so much that this custom became impractical...