Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just at present there is a good deal being heard from the Junior Class on the subject of German. In informal discussions the word is usually preceded by one or two vigorous English expletives of doubtful Teutonic origin. But informal or formal, the discussion is one not to be dismissed lightly. Approximately a quarter of the Junior Class is on probation because of failure to meet the Modern Language Requirements...
Featuring the rowing yesterday afternoon was a race between the Sophomore A and B class crews. This was the first formal brush this fall, and both sets of oarsmen showed plainly the effects of early-season racing. Crew A won the verdict by a clean length, but B was always close enough to make competition of the keenest throughout...
...first formal meeting of the Student Liberal Club will be at 7 o'clock next Wednesday evening at 66 Winthrop street. Mir Mahmood, president of the Oxford International Assembly, will be the chief speaker of the evening. The subject of his address will be: "The League of Nations. Its relation to Asia and the Brotherhood...
...Reception" is too formal to describe the meeting tonight; "at home" would do much better, for there is no R. S. V. P. on the invitation, and those who stay away will be only those who find they can get along without getting acquainted with Harvard...
...liberal an attitude contrasts interestingly with the view of a certain western university president, who said recently: "Formal education is a system of training devised by aduits in order that the rising generation may be prepared to carry on the program regarded as important by the adults of that particular stage of civilization." A little thought will quickly reveal how keenly this analyzes the general ideal of education today. It has been left for Barrie, one of the "adults," to point out the dangers of such a conception, and to clear the way for change. Youth must not fear...