Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alumni, no matter how perfectly they conformed to the collegiate pattern of life in pre-diploma days, be expected to defend undergraduate realism. A year off the campus and the average alumnus is more apt to remember the good time he had a such and such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much...
Details of the formal celebration of the Tercentenary, to take place at a meeting in the new Tercentenary Theatre on Friday morning, September 18, have now been pretty completely lined...
...program will open with an Address of Welcome given by Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, appointed Latin Orator for the Tercentenary. This talk will be followed by a formal recital of the acts constituting the Founding of Harvard College by Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History and Tercentenary Historian. A representative from the Common-wealth of Massachusetts, not yet chosen, will then deliver an address...
...managing director. Last year when there was no regular season because of the lack of public support, the city voted $30,000 to give ten popular-priced concerts (TIME, May 13). But Mrs. Armsby and President Thompson (brother of Author Kathleen Morris), were determined to have an oldtime formal season besides, engaged Monteux and launched the one just ending. To cover expenses they needed a guarantee of $82,000, had only half of it when the first concert was given. The rejuvenated orchestra has taken care of the rest. Attendance has been some 40% better than in 1929. Next year...
...main clause of the resolution requires "that the government and people of the United States unite with Harvard University in a fitting and appropriate observation of the 300th anniversary of its founding, which marked the formal beginning of higher education in the United States...