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...voted 15 to 12 not to grant Governor Benjamin Butler an honorary degree because his character was not consistent with the motto "Verities." In so doing, the Board of Overseers had overruled the recommendations of President Eliot and the Corporation, who foresaw the unpleasant political implications of breaking the custom of giving the governor an honorary...
SLATER: This is Bill Slater reminding you that it's a good old American custom--and a priceless American privilege--to speak your mind. We have as our guest this week a senior at Yale University who is eminently qualified to speak up for straight-thinking young America. Bill Buckley was on the Yale team that 'won from Oxford the debate on Socialism. He served as Chairman of the "Yale Daily News"--and he has a mind of his own about what is being taught, and what is not being taught, in American colleges. After you hear...
...Truman ordered "equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons" in the services, few believed it any more than a pious declaration which would be just as piously sabotaged. But after 22 months, what the President's committee had to report amounted to the greatest change in service custom since the abandonment of the cat-o'-nine-tails...
...Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, which abolished tipping in dining cars several years ago as "an imposition on the customer and a practice unworthy of American labor," gave up trying to reform its patrons and help. Waiters, though they got a raise, had proved incapable of purging their features of all hope. And most customers had been plain miserable -uncomfortable if they slipped a clandestine coin under a saucer, more uncomfortable if they didn't. Said the C. & O. sternly: "Too many persons lack the courage to participate in an experiment that breaks with custom...
...cheerfully. Once his people found a man who could carve well, he went on, they would chain him and give him all the food, drink, women and tools his heart desired, and after some drinking and some lovemaking he would create masterpieces. But then the misguided British stopped the custom. They said it was slavery. "If any great city in America could tether a hundred young artists, chosen for their inventive faculties," concluded Pound, "that city would within two decades become the center of occidental...