Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be succeeded by W. W. Atterbury, another member of the thinning company of self-made captains of industry. W. W. Atterbury, however, is no captain, but a general, that title having been formally conferred upon him on the occasion of services which he rendered as chief railroad man for the Amerlean Expeditionary Force in France. Mr. Atterbury's biography, if drawn up by the late Alger, might be entitled, From Apprentice to President. Although he began his formal career as a shop apprentice in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, he is a graduate of Yale (1886), wears a rakish...
...major research enterprise of the Graduate School of Education, "an investigation of the mental and physical development of school children by means of annually repeated measurements of several thousands of the same individuals from the time of their entrance into school to the time of the completion of their formal education...
...double stair, to a large room, 32 by 45 feet, two stories high, which will be used at present as a library for the group of Freshman halls. The finish will be natural pine and oak and trowelled plaster with tile floor. Both of these rooms will be less formal in treatment than corresponding ones in the present Freshman halls...
...scattered among a large number of faculty advisers as well, not as much attention could be devoted to the individual problems of the first year men as the new system will now make possible. Advice will be based on knowledge and understanding of the individual rather than on a formal interpretation of academic regulations...
...series of formal and informal meetings have been planned to inaugurate the college year for the class of 1929. Among those who will greet the Freshmen at the various receptions to be given through Monday morning, are President A. Lawrence Lowell '77, Mr. Frederick T. Campbell, headmaster of the Boston Latin School, Dr. Karl Reiland, rector of St. George's Church in New York, and the Hon. Joseph C. Grew '02, Under-Secretary of State...