Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proof of the success of last year's experimental broadcasts of lectures by members of the Faculty has been shown by the announcement of a continuation of the lectures through the winter. The significance of this announcement is among other things, the establishment of radio as a formal and regular part of the educational system at Harvard. The widespread appeal of these lectures as evidenced by the interest shown in them from all parts of the country. The lectures are not, however, limited to audiences in this country since the station broadcasting them is on an international hookup...
...formal statement to the CRIMSON, Buder said, "I really regard this tenture as a bit of exercise. I'm getting a little sluggish the financial end of it is merely a minor inducement." He went on to say that the major inducement for him in his love of bicycling. Buder has already gained attention by his 95 mile ride to Smith College last year. Concerning this trip he commented. "It took a pretty long day to get there...
Unfortunately this condition still prevails today. It requires almost a formal invitation to enjoy a meal with a member of the faculty. The sight of professor and young man separating at the dining-hall entrance, each hieing himself off to his own little group, is not an unusual one. Though the undergraduates and sometimes the faculty may deplore the condition, nothing is done. Inertia seems to have gripped everyone. Most of us are too lazy to rise to object...
...Conant's plan provides the student with an educational impetus that will stir him long after his formal education is completed. The existence of a well defined program for independent work will do much to overcome the confusion and mental paralysis that seize men after graduation. Such study will both increase the value of what has gone before and provide another "open door" to the exploitation of new fields. The interaction between sustained study and everyday experience should produce a new and useful synthesis...
Front No. 5, Córdoba itself is protected by formal lines of trenches almost as strong as those at Madrid, quiescent for many weeks, and this silence extends over the high peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the sea, where there has been no effective action since the capture of Málaga seven months ago. All this line is under control of el Caudillo Franco's most colorful subordinate, hoarse-voiced bombastic General Queipo de Llano, the "radio general...