Word: formality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...novel feature in connection with the final chapel exercises of the Amherst College seniors was the formal announcement of the election of President Meiklejohn as an honorary member of the class in view of the fact that the president and the seniors began their connection with the college at the same time. In token of his acceptance of the honorary membership conferred upon him by the class, the President doffed his doctor of laws regalia, was escorted to a place among the seniors in the front row and at the conclusion of the exercises marched out between the class marshal...
...jollification before the stands on next Tuesday in the annual game with the University will be conducted in essentially the same manner as in previous years. After the class dinners Tuesday evening the Campus will be closed to all except Yale graduates and undergraduates, and while no formal program of events is being planned for the evening, each class will enjoy itself in its own way in the enclosed space. There will be provided some fireworks and possibly an exhibition on an opening screen of motion pictures of scenes from Yale undergraduate life...
Reunion costumes will be worn by the younger alumni on Monday and Tuesday, but these costumes will all be discarded Tuesday evening. On Wednesday the exercises will be of a formal character. The program of events for the graduates in New Haven will end with the alumni luncheon in the Yale Dining Hall Wednesday noon and the President's Reception in Memorial Hall Wednesday afternoon...
...that capacity, their officers and servants, shall have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, liberties, privileges, immunities and franchises which they now have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy.' That is the basis of our degree-granting power--a privilege exercised in colonial days without formal authority but subsequently embalmed in the organic law of the Commonwealth...
...Louis, Mo., June 13.--In marked contrast to the Republican and Progressive conventions of last week, there is such a great store of harmony among the Democratic delegates assembled here that a formal convention seems hardly necessary. The only event of importance during the last twenty-four hours was the arrival of Secretary of War Baker with full directions in his bag from President Wilson as to the method of constructing the platform for the coming campaign and nominating Wilson for president and Marshall for vice-president. The absolute calm is broken only by hardly audible booms for Governor Sullivan...