Word: formality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...author, editor, professor and diplomatic ambassador. Recognizing the excellence of Professor Norton's "Letters of James Russell Lowell," the author, as he says in his preface, has deemed it advisable "not so much to supplement the 'Letters' with other letters, as to complement those volumes with a more formal biography." Keeping this aim in view, the author has quoted from letters only as they throw light on his subject, and does not use them as the foundation of his work. Thus though we find numerous quotations, we read a connected narrative instead of a printed correspondence...
...Rice 1G., president of the Chess Club has sent a formal challenge proposing an international match to each of the presidents of the Oxford and Cambridge chess clubs. At the recent meeting of the representatives of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard at the Intercollegiate Chess Tournament Rice was appointed to make arrangements for the match. Owing to the absence of any official, previous to Rice's appointment, properly commissioned to arrange the match there has been some delay in sending the challenge. The challenge is sent in behalf of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard to the universities of Oxford...
...formal announcement of the winners of academic distinctions during the past year took place in Sanders Theatre last night. Dean Briggs presided. Among the guests who sat on the platform were President Eliot, Professors Norton, Emerton, Grandgent, Parker and Morgan, and the four class presidents...
...will be served without charge in the Living Room of the Union hereafter from 4 until 5.30 o'clock every afternoon. There will be no formal teas, as the plan is merely to give an opportunity for informal meeting...
...formal dedication of the Yale bicentennial memorial buildings took place on Thursday, Nov. 21, when the cornerstones were laid...