Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will find Edward Darling of Kingston, Pennsylvania and C. T. Lane of Richmond, Surrey County, England for the Bryce Club opposing C. A. Howard Jr. of Aberdeen, South Dakota and E. B. Hanley '27 of Seattle, Washington of the Scott Club. A unique feature of the arguments is the custom of distributing briefs to aid the audience in following the successive stages of the case. Briefs for the semi-finals of this year will be distributed a week in advance of the argument...
Coach Horween yesterday departed from his usual custom of scrimmaging against the seconds and pitted Teams A and B of his University squad against each other in a brisk hour's workout...
...legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton public school children will get no holiday when it rains. . . . Among the Cyr.us Fogg Brackett lecturers this year at Princeton University will be Fred Wesley Sargent, president of Chicago & North Western Railway; Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan...
...Rosenberg's father Herman founded the business which is now Fashion Park. At the same time one Nathan Stein founded another Rochester wholesale tailoring business which became Stein-Bloch, Inc. Together they grew, prospered. In time, so excellent became their clothes that retailers saw advantage in breaking the custom which demanded that a suit bear only the retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt this new policy were...
...Coach Fielding H. Yost tells how deaf-mutes use sign-signals where others shout. In the "Jere to Libe" volume Helen Wills relates how lawn tennis was introduced to the U. S.?via Bermuda, in 1874. "There was some difficulty in getting the [first tennis] outfit through the custom house, as no one knew what...