Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than twelve can well engage in conversation at table. Shall we be satisfied with social groups of a dozen within the subdivided college, or will members adopt the native custom of parties in the corn belt, and progress up and down the tables between courses...
...custom of having one or two movie comedies which has been followed for the last few years has been abandoned this spring because the Committee feel that it offers nothing in the way of distinctive entertainment...
...Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," edited by Hyder E. Rollins, "Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy," edited by Franz Richby, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," by a Committee of the Classical Instructors of Harvard University, "Four Introductory Lectures," "La Methode Comparative en Linguistique Historique," by A. Meillet, "Custom and Right," by Paul Vinogradoff, "Mankind, Nation, and Individual," by Otto Jesperson, "Sanlede Skrifter," by Moltke Moe, "Santal Folk Tales," by P. O. Bodding, "Trends in American Seconary Education," by Leonard V. Koos, "The American Wool Manufacture," by A. H. Cole '13, Assistant Professor of Economics in Harvard University, "Cotton Mather...
According to ancient custom the Seniors will beg from the Freshmen before the latter's picture is taken. Although much beside money is usually gleaned as a result of this supplication, the Freshmen must produce something of current value if they want their picture to come to a successful conclusion. Several times in the past no coins or bills have been produced, and the first year picture has consequently not been taken...
Iolanthe. It has become so much a fixed custom to gurgle happy criticisms over any Gilbert and Sullivan opera?just because it is Gilbert and Sullivan?that lolanthe as produced by Winthrop Ames left a lot of people without adjectives. It is generally agreed that in this entertainment he has done the best job of any producer attempting one of the famous series in our time. The only anxiety now is that he may be distracted before he has revived everyone of the operas in an equally felicitous vein...