Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English do not employ the American custom of having formal judges and out of courtesy to the visitors most American teams have followed the Oxford custom, which leaves the determination of the winner to a vote of the audience. It is the American belief that the decision of the audience is influenced chiefly by their preconceived convictions. The first international debate presented these difficulties and the added formidable hurdle of more mature debaters on the English side...
Captain Jackson arrives at a roadside tavern and promptly pick; two fights. Duels were the custom of the country, and the hour set for the duels is early the next morning. Meanwhile there is a country dance. Jackson falls in love with the local belle argues state rights, the purpose of the Constitution, and the excise tax on whiskey, and forces the duels before their time. One man he kills; the other is so drunk that Jackson fires in harmless disdain over his head. The last act he spends in the girl's cabin, in love making for a time...
...first time in the history of the University the Freshman class entering college this year will be in charge of two assistant deans instead of one as has been the custom in the past. Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney '17, who was Freshman dean last year, will again be in charge this year, assisted by Elliott Perkins '23, who was prominent in undergraduate affairs and a member of the 150-pound crew while in college. He graduated "cum laude" and prepared for college at Milton Academy. The new plan will make possible more personal contact between the Dean's Office...
...extremes. The Parliament must be re-elected every five years, and may be dissolved and re-elected at any time upon the fiat of the Governor General. The Governor General, like King George, generally gives ear to the reigning Premier in such matters. And he in turn responds by custom to any very marked indications that the public is restive and anxious to elect a new Parliament which will mean more power or oblivion for the Premier...
...confess that I am old- fashioned. I am so old-fashioned that my mind cannot discriminate between a young man hugging a young woman sitting upon a sofa, or hugging her upon the dance hall floor. And if the demands of modesty, and the requirements of sound social custom prohibit such a practice in the one case, I cannot see why they should not prohibit it in the other. For surely, my friends, if there is any choice between the two things, the odds are all in favor of the hugging on the sofa, as the dance is hugging...