Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would like some informed person to tell me the meaning, for example, of the formal official announcement of the Federal Department of State that it has approved the private refunding debt proposals of the French Government in the U. S., together with a Prussian and Polish loan totalling...
Members of the University will have a chance to display their forensic abilities tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock at the Union, when the Debating Union will throw open the floor to all those present after a formal debate between four men on the proposition: "Resolved, That this house believes that the Monroe Doctrine, in its applications to South and Central America, should be abandoned...
...institute exercises, Professor Wilson said, again quoting Mr. Croly. "The institute is, if you please, a lily in the farm yard of politics." He went on to explain that the sole purpose of the institute was to investigate and to discuss, but that no resolutions were passed and no formal decisions were made...
...which arrives in Cambridge today for battle, girded with armor of a far more secretive nature. "The Dartmouth", which faces the CRIMSON in a game of touch football this afternoon, is expected to appear on the field-it is hoped that there will be a field-in anything from formal dress to cast off berets. Costumes are to be ad.lib.; the one requirement being that there be costumes...
...other hand, the majority of men who matriculate in the College do so with the idea that the end has begun and that a collegiate degree will conclude their formal education. It is not, perhaps, a great majority; it is nevertheless sufficiently large to obviate any change in plans which would do harm to it, although benefiting a powerful and increasing minority. One must first consider whether or not a candidate can successfully complete requirements for an A.B. in any less than four years; and such reckoning should be accomplished, not on the presumption that he intends to pursue...