Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate, who is and expects to remain a lay student of religion, there has been no such formal opportunity. In discussion with his fellows, in unguided browsing, he is continually struggling with eternal questions. But he has not yet found a planned and thorough presentation of religion within the college curriculum...
...when then length of one's trousers measured the length of his life, Frenchmen view the sartorial eccentricities of the Herriot government with apprehension. If it is accorded the fate of its liberal English contemporary it may know whereon to blame its fall. A black waistcoat at a formal reception! Morbleu...
...learn that the leading critics of the metropolitan papers had consented to review the show at the opening night of the Columbia Theatre, New York's principal burlesque theatre. Broun and Benchley and Woolcott, and all the rest of them, occupied aisle seats at the performance, and printed their formal reviews in their publications. The meaning of the incident soon became plain: the authorities recognized the effort made by the better element in burslesque to clean house. The most prominent theatrical personages paid homage to the wagers of the bitterest war that the theatre has ever known...
...rumored that members of foreign legations have been instructed to lay aside admiral's hats for this occasion and wear stocking caps. Report goes that the President will appear in simple semi-formal dress of close-fitting black tights, safely suspended by white silk suspenders. He will ride in the procession seated comfortably on top of a have wagon with pitchfork in one hand and brown derby in the other. In short, everything is to be as simple as possible...
...very simple expedient is to register every student automatically as out for distinction: requiring special application (which entails some thought) to drop from that status. Then the awards of prizes and scholarship should be given the publicity they deserve. The College bulletin boards are plastered with (very formal and unenticing) notices of such competitions, but very, very rarely are the results ever given to the world. Many men graduated this mid-year: but who in College has heard which candidates were awarded degrees with distinction, outside possibly of personal friends? Yet such news is quite as important and more stimulating...