Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Club of Boston will open its new house to members tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. An hour later, the members will assemble in the main room, Harvard Hall, where short formal exercises will be held. President Eliot and President Lowell will speak and the latter will kindle a fire on the hearth of Harvard Hall. Music will be furnished by the Alumni Chorus and the new organ. After these exercises, refreshments will be served...
Princeton, N. J., October 21.--The formal dedication of the Graduate College of Princeton University and the presentation of the Cleveland Memorial Tower takes place Wednesday morning. Representatives from the larger colleges and universities of this country together with a delegation from abroad will be present. Among the speakers are President Hibben and Dean West of Princeton, Alois Riehl of Berlin, Arthur Shipley of Cambridge, Emil Boutroux of Paris, and former president Taft...
...Wednesday, November 12, the new clubhouse of the Harvard Club of Boston will be opened for inspection at 7.30 o'clock. Formal ceremonies will follow one hour later at 8.30 o'clock. Among the speakers will be President Lowell and President Eliot. The president of the club, Major H. L. Higginson '55, will start the fires in the massive fireplaces of Harvard Hall. A light luncheon will follow during which the large organ giv by Mr. E. B. Dane '92 will be played for the first time before an audience...
Harvard's opening ushers in the new academic year for this part of Massachusetts at least. Technology's long summer vacation is not quite ended, but already the Institute is alive with activity in its preparation for the formal opening next week. Wellesley, Tufts and Boston University, in common with most of the smaller colleges of New England, are now in the second week of the term. For all of these the new year is full of promise...
...Formal examinations, as tests of fitness for every kind of work, which disregard utterly the personal equation, are being disproved, modified, and abandoned all along the line. As regards testing fitness to do college work, we believe there is practical value in the suggestion of Professor Thorndike, that the colleges which now allow the College Entrance Board to examine applicants, entrust to it the power to credit schools on the basis of an examination of the actual success in college of candidates prepared and endorsed by that school...