Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...formal announcement of the winners of academic distinctions during the past year took place in the Fogg Lecture Room last night. Professor LeB. R. Briggs presided. Among the invited guests and members of the Faculty who occupied seats on the platform were Maj. H. L. Higginson hon. '82, Dr. Wm. Everett '59, Professors Morgan, Smith, Grandgent, Taussig, Wright and Wendell and the four class presidents...
...formal dedication of Brooks House will be made at 4 o'clock on Tuesday, January 23, the seventh anniversary of the death of Phillips Brooks. The formal transfer of the building to the University will be made by Mr. Robert Treat Paine, in behalf of the Building Committee. Addresses will be made by President Eliot and others...
...Desmond 2L., D. F. Drake '00, and the three officers. The representatives from the Sophomore class has not yet been chosen. This committee is making arrangements for four of five religious meetings, the first of which will be held in the Brooks Hall immediately after the formal opening of Brooks House in January. The committee also intends to send in a petition to the administrative committee of the house for permission to smoke in the building...
...Saturday, Nov. 11, and Thursday, Nov. 16. At the first trial, when twelve men will be chosen, speeches will be limited to five minutes. At the second trial there will be ten-minute speeches and six men will be chosen from the twelve. The last trial will be a formal debate with twelve-minute opening speeches and five-minute rebuttals, three men speaking on a side as in the intercollegiate contests...
When the guests had entered the chapel, the LXV Psalm was sung followed by Luther's hymn, "Ein Feste Burg," both of which have been sung at every inauguration in Yale's history. The inauguration exercises opened with prayer by Dr. Dwight, after which the formal inauguration of President Hadley took place. Dr. Twitchell's address was extemporaneous, consisting of a few simple remarks...