Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner, which is one of the traditions of extra-curricular activity at Harvard, will be attended by the editors, past and present of the Harvard CRIMSON and their guests. It will be the formal occasion for the inauguration into office of a new Board, and it will mark the completion of a year's work by the retiring officers. Speeches from graduate editors and summaries of the year's work will complete the evening's program...
...hope of the officers that the annual Union dinner will become an institution similar to the dinner of the Harvard Clubs. For this reason, the most distinguished speakers have been invited, and the dinner will be a formal affair...
...Next follow lists of scholarships and fellowships and prizes granted by the Faculty and other authorities which must receive the formal approval of the Corporation. The appointment of from 20 to 50 teachers of various ranks with salaries attached requires in some cases explanation of the President, or elicits questions from the Fellows. Fuller attention is given to the appointments for three years or more, such as Assistant Professors; and in the case of the election of Professors, the President who after conferences with the heads of the several departments has received these names, describes fully the conditions...
...President with the leaders of the Departments most affected, with the Departments and the Faculty; while at the same time informal discussion has gone on in the Corporation, and later information is given informally by the President to the Overseers; so that when the President and Fellows take formal action, the progress of the plan is assured. While the public is aroused by some headlines about startling changes or developments, the President and Fellows have passed that subject months before, and are at work upon the next development or problem...
...means of divisional examinations the administration sought to insure a better correlation of the student's work, to urge him to appraise the general field of his concentration as a connected whole, rather than as a group of courses having merely a formal relation with one another. These examinations gave an opportunity of testing a student's real knowledge of his subject and his real abilities at the end of his college course. Moreover, such a plan gave the student a more definite goal toward which to work. Under its influence the college graduate seemed better fitted to play...