Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...
...Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. say last week that his concern intended to buy up the American Woolen Co., dominant producer of its field. Vexed, he replied tartly: "We are not interested in any shape or form in the American Woolen Co. We don't like making formal denials of reports like these, because such denials are sometimes misunderstood as being ungracious, but that is the simple fact...
Harvard's latest step forward is the recent establishment of the pre-examination "reading periods," of two or three weeks, during which formal lectures and tutoring will be suspended. Both students and instructors will be required to remain in residence and it is expected that an assignment in reading and the prospect of the examinations in the immediate future will be sufficient stimulus to keep the undergraduates working. The various departments of the University are to decide for themselves whether the suggestion will be put into effect and the provision is also made that the recess will not apply...
...afford as much relief to the instructors as the students since at the present time the fortnight just previous to the final examinations is crowded with thesis reading and details incident to closing up a college semester. It will also cut down the length of time taken up by formal teaching and permit the members of the Faculty to study write and to research work...
...evolution of the tutorial system will grant to the undergraduate more independence from the restrictions of a formal curriculum. It should, at the same time, grant the same privilege to the Faculty. It could be made to operate in such a manner that many professors, now giving half their minds to lecturing, half to research, and so injuring the values of both, might remain students all their lives. Such men should be paid on a scale parallel with that of the true teacher, depending on achievement and years of service, in addition to all expenses in the beginning of their...