Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons, there are few tendernesses for old abuses. Thus, Labor's bill to reapportion seats in Parliament called, as well, for an end to a time-honored anachronism: plural voting. With a battle cry of "One man, one vote," Laborites denounced in particular the custom of having the financial "City" of London and the graduates of British universities elect their own M.P.s*. Last week, Morrison admitted that he could never think of the ancient City of London "without having in my veins some degree of emotion," but: "I am sorry ... I just cannot think of an argument...
...twentieth century and acknowledged the existence of sex. If Radcliffe makes the same move unilaterally, Harvard will become something of a lone puritanical ostrich, with its head buried in the past. Call it "Marriage," as the Radcliffe Student Council does, or call it "Sex Hygiene," as is the usual custom, the fact should be faced that a course dealing with sex ought to have a niche in the catalogue of courses. It is possible, some will suggest, that most local students would stand little to learn from such a course; but it is more likely that enough undergraduates to fill...
...remote mountains of Southwest Africa is another rock painting (discovered by Germans in 1917) which the abbé visited by long-distance desert safari. The central figure is that of a woman with clothes on (not a Bushman custom). Her features are European, the abbé decided, and her costume resembles that of the lady bullfighters of ancient Crete, home of the Minotaur. How she got to Southwest Africa the abbé does not know, but he thinks the painting must be at least 4,000 years...
Just by way of introducing the pleasant custom of society notes to these pages, Mr. Harvey Harman, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, weekended in historic Cambridge these day recently past. He visited friends and Harvard Athletic Directors...
...learned committees tirelessly remind us, our society needs now, more than even before, the services of a free and alert press. We look to the CRIMSON and we see at once the virtually assured circulation, the regular, if not munificent, income; we know that by time-honored custom the paper is free from censorship; we see a daily published by able young men in a community given over to the fermentation of ideas. Where else in the world is there to be found a paper more favored by circumstance? As believing democrats, optimistic for human freedom, we turn hopefully...