Word: formality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...formal application blanks for tickets for the game will be issued, but graduates living at a distance may apply by letter direct to the Athletic Association. There will be a sale of tickets to graduates next Monday and Tuesday at 92 State street, Boston, from 12 to 2 o'clock, after which there will be a public sale of the tickets left over...
...formal application blanks for tickets for the Indian game on November 9, nor for the Dartmouth game on November 16 will be issued; but graduates living at a distance may apply by letter direct to the Harvard Athletic Association...
...celebration be made on this anniversary was made last spring by W. C. Lane '81, president of the Harvard Memorial Society. A committee consisting of the four undergraduate class presidents and the officers of the Memorial Society with a few representative undergraduates, was forthwith formed. Plans for a formal pageant were given up because the committee was unable to find any one to write a suitable piece. It is hoped that some eminent speaker may be secured for the formal part of the celebration. Another meeting of the committee will be held next week when more definite arrangements...
...Whereas, in the judgment of the Council, the interests of debating in the University can best be promoted not only by the practice of formal debating (which may be had at its best in the course on Debating offered by the English Department), but also by more or less informal discussion of public questions in relatively small groups of congenial...
...fundamental faults in the method in force during the past few years and should do much toward making debating more popular with upperclassmen. The experience of the past two years with the debating clubs proves conclusively that upperclassmen cannot or will not take the time to prepare formal debates at regular intervals and that they are not, as a rule, interested in listening to the dry statistical discussion that such debates generally call forth at club meetings. They prefer rather to get enough general information on public questions to serve as a basis for clear thinking and informal discussion...