Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regatta committee of the University of Pennsylvania, having received the formal declination of the Harvard Boat Club of a challenge to an eight-oared race, "Owing to other engagements already entered into with other colleges," will come to Cambridge if the race can be rowed here...
...class-room he was somewhat grim, and chary of the lore at his command. He was rather an instructor of scholars than of students, and his vast erudition showed itself in his grammars and lexicons more than in the conduct of recitations, which with him was rather formal and unfruitful, though his occasional lectures were rich with suggestions for those who could profit by them. His early life, before he came to this country to be-come in an almost accidental way a teacher of the teachers in Greek learning, was shrouded in a mystery, real or apparent, which...
...first ballot for every officer shall be informal ; after every alternate formal ballot, viz., the 2d, 4th, 6th, and c., the candidate having the smallest number of votes, and all other candidates having less than ten votes, shall be dropped...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in eight equal sections at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be alloed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes, cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-Clause six of the '84 class election provides that "after every alternate formal ballot, viz., the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and c., the candidate having the smallest number of votes, and all others candidates having less than ten votes, shall be dropped...