Word: traditionalizing
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What's the origin of the alphabet tradition? In the back of my mind, when I thought I would write a mystery novel, I understood the virtue of having titles that readers-at-large could recognize so that they'd know you had a next book out. I was reading...
I’ve come to like Thanksgiving even though it was not a big deal in Canada at all. It’s an acquired tradition when I moved here to Cambridge...We spend it in Truro, where the pilgrims landed before they came to Plymouth. They anchored in...
The earliest record of standardized testing comes from China, where hopefuls for government jobs had to fill out examinations testing their knowledge of Confucian philosophy and poetry. In the Western world, examiners usually favored giving essays, a tradition stemming from the ancient Greeks' affinity for the Socratic method. But as...
Quiet conversations and the clinking of forks filled the room. As Goldfeder took her plate at the table, everyone looked up from their food and began to clap—a nightly tradition of thanking the cook.
Students, graduates, and faculty of Harvard have a long tradition of invention and entrepreneurship. The Harvard-educated founders of Microsoft, Facebook, and City Year—to name just a few—took inspired chances that led to greatness. Falling back on what is expedient and simple is not...