Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atwood has been accused of destroying the undergraduate morale, of slighting the other departments to the advantage of his own subject, Geography, and in general of exerting a reactionary and negative influence on his college. He has roused the antagonism of prominent members of his faculty, as their recent formal protest showed; the Commencement Exercises revealed the antipathy of the students; and his unfortunate act of stopping the Scott Nearing talk a year ago roused the disfavor of fair-minded people throughout the country. Yet there are no indications that his term is to be ended...
...Conn., June 13. The first formal time-trial for the Crimson crews was held today when University A and B were sent over the full four-mile course...
...Union has not devoted all of its attention to new schemes, however, but has maintained its established feature such as the regular lectures, the tea dances and formal affairs, the tennis, pool, and billiards tournaments, and the prize essay contest In addition to its own entertainments, furthermore, the Union has served for many other outside activities, like the University Teas, the athletic mass meetings, and the gatherings of countless clubs in the University...
...sessions of the school, which will begin on July 14, will be the first formal meetings for the Academy. The Netherlands Government, under whose auspices the lectures will be held, originally planned to begin the sessions in the summer of 1914, but was forced to postpone the opening because of the war and was not able to make arrangements for the lectures until this year. There will be two sessions of the Academy, the first from July 14 to August 3 and from August 15 to September...
...Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board met in Washington behind closed doors in its usual manner, and subsequently departed gravely with only a formal statement to the press. The latter stated that "business is progressing conservatively and on a sound basis," but failed to comment on the proposed Cuban branch of the Boston Reserve Bank-one of the liveliest internal questions in the Reserve system today. The statement also expressed the opinion "that there appeared to be no reason why Federal Reserve Bank rates should be increased at this time...