Word: formality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they are willing to forgive a patronizing tone for the sake of being informed. The dogmatic manner in art criticism, justified in Ruskin's case by his authoritative position, may in this article repel those who prefer to be stimulated by suggestion rather than to be instructed by formal teaching...
...congress is divided into seven divisions, as follows: normative sciences, historical sciences, physical sciences, mental sciences, utilitarian sciences, social regulation and social culture. These divisions are sub-divided into 24 departments and 129 sections. After the general meeting and formal opening on September 19, at which the president of the congress will deliver an address on its relation to scientific progress, the seven divisions will hold meetings, at each of which an address will be given on the general subject of the division, with particular reference to its inner unity. On Tuesday, September 20, the 24 departments will hold their...
...chess clubs of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia universities, have just sent a formal joint challenge to the chess clubs of Oxford and Cambridge, proposing an international cable match to defend the Rice trophy. This match will be held during the spring, and will be the sixth in the series of contests for the possession of the silver shield, valued at $1,200, given by Mr. I. L. Rice of New York. This shield will become the permanent property of the country winning it three years in succession. Of the previous international intercollegiate matches, Great Britain has won three, America...
...spite of the formal petition which voiced the immediate protest of a not inconsiderable number of students--chiefly graduates--the Corporation seems to feel it wise to hold to its policy of closing the Warren House libraries during the evening hours...
...happy to couple with this formal presentation of the Emperor's gift the announcement of two other gifts which are about to be made to Harvard University. A year ago last April, after the friendly reception of his royal highness Prince Henry of Prussia by the people of the United States, there was formed in Berlin a committee of leading men of science, art, literature and finance, with the view of supplementing the emperor's donation by a gift from the German people. The committee decided upon a collection of galvanoplastic reproductions of representative works of German gold and silver...