Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's University budget includes $334,450 to pay for SCR members' meals in the houses, says Associate Dean Martha C. Gefter, and most houses also charge dues--$25 at North House for example. But most SCR members say they generally attend only the formal SCR luncheons and dinners, where they are guaranteed the conversation of other faculty members. Some house masters also give SCR luncheons an added purpose by conducting house business--such as chosing which students to recommend for fellowships...
...result, Jewett says he believes SCRmembers should play a more formal role in theadvising system. Houses' intellectual life wouldimprove, he says, "If the SCR and residentialtutors were more involved in the tutorialrelationship. The formal [relationship] has got toimprove. It would work better than if they're justa resource...
...Formal Intellectual Role
Residential tutors do play a more formal rolein the house, so they tend to have a somewhatlarger impact on students' intellectual lives. Thevast majority of students say they know theresident graduate students in non-intellectualsettings, such as intramurals and weeklygatherings for milk and cookies. But someundergraduates add that once they know the tutors,they are more likely to consult them for academicadvice and discuss their intellectual interests...
...first the President gave no sign that he did. He spoke only in comments shouted to reporters over the roar of helicopter rotors on the White House lawn and in brief formal remarks issued through his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater. On Black Monday, he blithely attributed the crash to "some people grabbing profits" accumulated during the market's long rise. In a statement after the close of trading, he said that "the underlying economy remains sound" -- unwittingly drawing another parallel to 1929, when Herbert Hoover said almost exactly the same thing. On Wednesday, Reagan remarked that the midweek rally indicated...