Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practical first hand activity performed by students actually engaged in the work. The necessary union of these two elements will be further perfected tonight at the conference in Phillips Brooks House. For the social worker such a conference is invaluable. The comparative experiences elicited, the stimulative effect of formal exposition and open discussion are indispensable aids in such work, as those men realize who participated in last year's conference. Harvard does a very honorable share of the local improvement work. To the perpetuation of this work and, if possible, to an improvement of its quality, the meeting tonight...
...this will be the first chance the Freshmen have had to get together since their formal organization, it is hoped to make the meeting a large and informal gathering, so that all may become acquainted with the new officers...
...always easy for people to comprehend that the ordinary accretions of the attic, in the form of family letters, old account books, diaries, pamphlets, narratives written for the information of the family, etc., have often greater historical value than formal printed accounts by secondary historians, or autographs of distinguished men. There is sometimes a failure to perceive that an officer's commission in 1750 as a higher value than a printed county history on that period. The Commission, as its name signifies, is interested mainly in getting together material relating to western history, although a vast deal of this material...
Plans for further undergraduate co-operation between the University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been completed, and the formal sanction of the Harvard Association of Engineers is all that remains in the way of the union between the Harvard Engineering Journal and the Technology Monthly...
...semi-annual trophy competition held by the School of Landscape Architecture were judged yesterday afternoon by Mr. Charles A. Platt, of New York. There were nineteen entries in the competition, the subject of which was the design of a country estate of about five acres, containing a formal garden. Particular interest is attached to the judgment, because Mr. Platt is one of the foremost designers of country houses and gardens in this country...