Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow, ice, and evergreens will be the decorative scheme for the Mid Winter Formal at Adams House Thursday night from 7:30 to 2:30 o'clock. The Hudson DeLange orchestra will provide the music for the Goldcoasters. Arrangements have been made by the Dance Committee headed by Harold W. Danser '37, and including Roger H. Emerson '37, Russell Stern '38, Wilson V. Binger '38, and Robert L. Brainard...
...pierced in the eye, is sinking forward, clutching at saddle and mane. But both faces are wholly impassive; no movement of the features was necessary to the Persian mind. None was thought worthy of the dignity of painting. The-flowery meadown is merely suggested; trees, rocks and clouds are formal conventions. But the cosmic aspect of the tragedy is announced by a great burst of organge fight in the darkness of the heavens...
...believe that most of the public lectures given in Cambridge and many of the lectures which form parts of formal courses offer orderly discussions of problems of general interest and, without any attempt to adapt them for broadcasting, will appeal to many listeners. Chapel services and musical programs clearly require no adaptation...
...curriculum proposed is to be practical rather than theoretical. Especially significant is its inclusion of a course in the actualities of politics. "Such a course," says the commission, "should not follow the usual lines of academic instruction by discussing such topics as public opinion, electoral procedure and formal party organization, but should endeavor to acquaint the student with the actual political situations which he is likely to encounter during his later career. It should aim to give him a clear insight into the workings of the politician's mind as well as an acquaintance with the politician's technique...
...emphasized by Harvard dons in speeches during the celebrations that adaptation to modern ideas rather than imitation of the mediaevalism of Oxford and Cambridge had been the ideal in the creation of the Harvard house system only five years ago. Some of the houses it is true have weekly formal dinners with Master and Fellows at the high table, reminiscent of Cambridge Hall, but on other occasions undergraduates are allowed to entertain women guests to meals in the dining rooms. The King of Navarre's academe does not survive the Atlantic crossing...