Word: formality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inform me in regard to the following questions? Was the foot ball convention held immediately after the Yale-Princeton game an informal one? If so, have the students a right to instruct their delegates to the formal convention, at which the championship will be decided...
...this unavoidable barer be reduced to a minimum and that between instructor and student there exist a closer and more friendly relation. Many of our professors recognize this need and have endeavored to become better acquainted with the students by setting apart one or more evenings a week for formal receptions. The effect of this upon both must be most excellent. If an instructor sees that there are those who look up to him for counsel and advice as well as knowledge, he must feel that it devolves upon him to conduct himself in such a manner...
...money to found a place of education. John Harvard himself, the gentleman continued, would regret that the inscription on his statue should imply the slightest want of recognition of the fact that, long before he had ever set foot upon these shores, the magistrates of the colony had taken formal steps to establish a seat of learning, to which they subsequently assigned his name...
...shingle. The scheme of work proposed in yesterday's CRIMSON was adopted. It was decided to hold the first public declamations and recitations by the club, in Sever 11, on November 18. The next meeting of the club will be held on Tuesday, November 11, when a formal name for the new society will be chosen...
...Formal matter should previously be presented to the chairman in writing. But the committee desires especially the oral consideration of questions relating to athletic interests, and is ready to hold extra meetings for this purpose if necessary...