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...meeting is an annual one to which every man who has been a secretary of his class is invited. It has been the custom, in former years, for discussion of college affairs to be held at these meetings...
...Fairfax, Mo., Frank Plumb, anthropologist, unearthed a skeleton measuring 7 feet 2 inches with a low, slanting skull that suggested the Mayan custom of flattening infants' heads; with a pear-shaped stone inside it such as the Mayans put in the mouths of their dead; with a bit of pottery nearby and a translucent stone carved with a Mayan figure...
...With extreme diffidence... I draw attention to the . . . custom of caging live birds and live animals and keeping them caged or chained up as a show. . . . I am not speaking of zoos. There is much to be said against zoos, but I am speaking of the caging of animals as a private enterprise. . . . It is queer that curiosity leads to this . . . cruelty. It isn't, I suppose, for an Englishman to appeal to Americans to abate an abuse, but. . . to deprive wild animals of their freedom is a dreadful thing . . . a slow death...
...Custom, always moth-eaten and unimaginative, decrees that, in the phraseology of Olympus, there shall be a recess from April 19 to April 25 inclusive. This statement as included in sundry calendars of University affairs appears uncommonly bald and non-committal; but like the succinct phrases of the Parieal Regulations and communications from the dean's office, it covers an amount of ground in exact inverse proportion to the number of words involved...
...best enjoy full and wholesome development un-compromised by any of those inhibitions which confinement within the limits of the college continually demands. So it must ultimately become definitely divorced from the college. Therefore those who do go over the river from the college next fall must institute no custom. A Cis-Charles college colony must remain as a temporary asset, not a permanent liability...