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...another worshipper of this ancient and honorable custom is gained. Intellectual weaklings grow hirsute and become mental Sampsons! If anyone still doubts the effectiveness of this superstition and fetish worship, let him read Professor Tozzer's new book. Let him test it as other religions are often tested: by popularity, and by pragmatism. Professor Tozzer's interesting chapter shows that the whole college world practices it today and that its adherents are satisfied of its effectiveness...
...Constitution invested the persons elected to the Electoral College in each State with most vital and momentous discretionary powers. In the course of but little more than a century, custom, without any changes of the Constitution or law, simply the custom of the people of the United States, has changed the office from one of discretion and authority to one purely ministerial under all ordinary circumstances...
...piece is a departure from the Jolson custom in that it has a plot. The comedian portrays the character of a darkey jockey who rides a colt named Big Boy and wins the last-act race. This framework displays no sensational originality. It is shrewdly made to carry the star's efforts, always feeding them and taking little for itself. The company is large and generally competent. Yet, it is upon the magnificent vitality, the bright and sometimes bawdy wit, the shift to a swift flash of pathos, the surpassing magnetism of Mr. Jolson that the show depends...
...American mobocracy, having destroyed all personal tyrants, delights to impose the tyranny of custom upon itself. The latest outrage is a strict order that all good Americans must discard their winter footgear by the first of May, if they dare to appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another...
...Board of Overseers of the University will no longer be elected at polls in the Yard on commencement day, but will be chosen only by postal ballot. This decision, made yesterday by the overseers' committee, shatters a custom which has stood since its inauguration...