Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...courses made by the student although it is to be expected, probably, that a capable tutor will tend to influence this choice. It will be impossible so sharply to distinguish the task of choosing courses and correlating them as to prevent this. The sanction of the adviser may approximate formal permission, with the guiding force held by the tutor...
...talk on a highly specialized topic it would be infinitely more courteous to him to confront him with a crowded Trophy Room or to utilize the Writing Room where the audience could sit irregularly about the speaker or even "lounge" about the room and avoid the feeling of formal emptiness prevalent in a half-filled Living Room. The meeting would be less frigid, more lively, more pleasant for the speaker and beneficial for the audience for the absence of the empty chairs...
That Princeton has been offered a Stadium, with a capacity for seating 41,000 persons, by Edgar Palmer a graduate of the class of '03, was announced Saturday by President Hibben. The plan has already been approved by the Committee on Grounds and Buildings of Princeton, the formal approvement of the Board of Trustees being expected on April...
Representatives from the Intercollegiate Musical Council will hold a conference at the Harvard Club of New York this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. At this meeting the remaining business details will be settled, and a formal constitution adopted. The permanence of the Musical Council devolves upon the success of this year's meet. If it proves financially possible, a similar meet will be given annually...
...only their own department, or at the most their own and two or three others, to ponder on the fact that the official work of the University is divided into thirty-four branches, of which the College is only one; and then to think of the multitudinous student activities, formal and informal, and the five thousand individuals who go to make up Harvard. Is there any wonder that no satisfactorily comprehensive impression of it has ever been written? It demands more than an every-day confessions for the man who shall write its Comedie Humaine...