Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner will be strictly formal and will be limited to 250 people, including the guests. Applications for tickets, which will be about $2, are now being received at the newsstand
...establishing close relations between the student body and the governing factors in the University. Nevertheless the idea is good. University teas are another embodiment of this same effort, and they too, play a role in introducing the two main bodies of the University to each other. The semi-formal, social character of such meetings in something not to be attained even in the most intimate classes; the only pity is that no larger number of students take advantage of them. The Union and the Faculty are coming more than halfway; only where the students are unwilling to make a little...
...signalized, last week, when the British Governor of Hongkong, Sir Cecil Clementi, received a visit from Dictator Li Chai-sum of Canton and accorded to him every honor. Sir Cecil then prepared to return the Dictator's visit by announcing that he would go himself in full & formal array to Canton...
Some say horseshoe pitching developed in imitation of the more courtly game of quoits. Perhaps, so far as it concerns the codification of horseshoe pitching as a formal sport, this is true, but it is certain that in the beginning quoits developed out of horseshoe pitching. Followers of both games argue the question at great length. Horseshoe pitchers point out that, next to ringing church bells, throwing horseshoes was the sin which most tempted the tinker, John Bunyon, before God was made manifest to him. Now there are pitching courts in the public parks of most big cities. Quiet, sunburned...
This is the only formal social event of this kind in the University today, in which undergraduates can meet prominent graduates as well as members at the Faculty. Any members of the Faculty are invited to sit at the tables and meet the students...