Word: formality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...formal induction will take place tomorrow morning at 10.15 o'clock. Speeches of congratulation will be delivered in behalf of the English founders and benefactors by Ambassador James Bryce; in behalf of the state of New Hampshire by Governor Henry B. Quinby; in behalf of the delegates by Nicholas M. Butler of Columbia University...
...final ceremony of the inauguration was a formal dinner given last evening in the Union by the President and Fellows to the Delegates.Courtesy of the Boston Post.PRESIDENT LOWELL AND PRESIDENT EMERITUS ELIOT...
...formal ceremony of the inauguration of President Lowell, followed by the President's address and the conferring of honorary degrees will take place on the morning of October 6 at 10.30 o'clock. The exercises will be held on a platform which is being constructed in front of University Hall. The departments of the University, the Alumni Association and the Harvard Club of Boston have arranged a number of official receptions and social gatherings for the entertainment of the visiting delegates and alumni from October...
...College in 1869, says Professor Kuehnemann (who evidently has only the formal instruction in view), was like a German gymnasium, surrounded by a group of professional schools with low standards of admission and "merely practical aims." The work of President Eliot, he continues, has consisted in turning these schools into places for graduate and theoretical study; in leading the College from "the easy-going pursuit of prescribed courses" and "the drill system" to "a thoroughly scholarly training, befitting the dignity and importance of the learned professions"; and finally, in inducing the preparatory schools to raise their standards, diversify their teaching...
...some years it has seemed to many that the formal resolutions of a class were a cold and inadequate way of expressing sympathy and sorrow for the death of a Harvard undergraduate. There are others than classmates who feel such a loss, and yet shrink from the usual expression of sympathy for some reason or another. It seems to us that Harvard is not too large or too impersonal to take some notice in morning Chapel of the death of a member of the university, and if some simple and appropriate service could be arranged and his friends and classmates...