Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot he shall be declared elected...
...that it will be a benefit in checking entirely any tendency towards professionalism that might hereafter arise in our athletics. The regulation in regard to trainers is equally strict and severe - arbitrarily so it may seem to many. The third rule is but putting into the form of a formal regulation what has long been the practice in regard to candidates for the various crews and clubs of the college. The fourth rule, requiring ability to swim from all members of the crews, is eminently proper and commendable. The same rule is in operation, we understand, at Oxford and Cambridge...
...worth noticing that while preparations are being made to administer the great gift of a New England man to the South, a grand jury in Georgia has just issued a formal denunciation of general education, on the ground that it unfits a large element of the population for the work they are best adapted to perform. "And there are," gravely adds a leading Southern paper, "a great many people in Georgia that agree with the grand jury...
...Baylies, secretary of the H. U. B. C., is expected to set forth the following points: "That technically Harvard could have claimed the race on the day for which it was first appointed; that had Harvard acted in a professional spirit it would have claimed it; that when without formal notice from Columbia of her sad misfortune, Harvard voluntarily, and as a matter of courtesy, kept off the course on the hour and day first named, and two days later agreed to row Columbia after the race with Yale, it did so with the full understanding that the time...
...week from today '82 packs her trunks, puts on her gloves, casts a last long look in the mirror to see if she's looking well, and with a formal bow takes her leave. She hasn't decided just yet where she s going or what she'll do, but she has been enjoying the best rooms in the house for some time, and thinks it but fair to move out and permit her sisters, staid '83, frivolous '84, and pert '85, to take up their quarters "first floor up, front." And then, to be sure, she wants to make...