Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valedictory, the authorities decided to ban the intoxicating plum cake which graduating seniors had been in the habit of giving their friends. During the 18th century, records of Class Day alcoholism are sparse, but early in the 1800s, the tradition of spiked punch took firm root. Abuses of this custom, however, led to a riot in 1838, and in 1852, the punch was declared illegal. During a controversy over Class Day 35 years later, a correspondent to the CRIMSON recalled "the good old days, when ... a cask containing a quantity of good cheer from a neighboring distillery...
...floorboards there was something to send rival automakers back to their drawing boards. Packard had come out with a new automatic shift-and those who had driven it gave it the edge on Buick's Dynaflow. The shift will be standard on the highest-priced line, the Custom 8s, optional on the lower-priced Supers...
...been our custom in past years to foretell of the future for this glorious event, particularly with respect to the $5000 feature race, the Damon Runyon Memorial. In these troubled times, however, all is flux, and we have seen fit to substitute for our predications the following document...
...furious Briton presently learned that the girls had formally asked his permission to douse him, and that this was part of a hallowed Burmese spring custom. Last week, Burma was still locked in civil war with the fierce Karens and other insurgents, but the Burmese found time to devote themselves to their own ancient rites. Happy as New Orleans folk at Mardi Gras, they went about laughing and dousing each other with water. It was the Thingyan or Water Festival, the Burmese New Year celebration occasioned by the annual visit of the great god Thi-gya-min (King of Good...
Besides starting its advising service, Phi Beta Kappa intends to initiate a series of dinners and to revive an old custom of publishing the cream of the theses written by its members...