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Several fields have been waiving finals for honors seniors during the past several years. Yesterday's ruling was passed by the faculty to make the custom uniform throughout all the department...
Hand-kissing in France, says the duke, "has always been considered optional, except in the case of royal princesses. But it is a custom which obeys fashion. Today it is back in fashion. It is a la mode." The duke offers this advice: "Best usage requires that the practitioner not lift up the offered hand towards himself, but incline himself over the hand, lightly brushing it with his lips. It is a mark of respect which one should address only to a married woman. It is rather difficult to execute and is not recommended in the street. In the salon...
...statement stressed that the Overseers, as representatives of the public, cannot "subordinate or waive their legal powers and duties in deference to academic custom, however wise and beneficent such custom may be as the result of experience and long tradition developed under lay control...
...were placed in temporary seniority by the steward when they came to school in August. The following spring, the faculty placed them in permanent rank; up to 1712, pretty much by scholastic merit. Later the placing was done on the basis of social prominence, but the entire custom was eliminated...
...Custom of the Country. In Manhattan, the thugs who locked up the manager and bartender of the Pony Stable Inn, and made off with $2,350 in cash and $200 in checks, left a $1 tip on the counter...