Word: formality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...farmers will be held in the Union Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, under the joint auspices of the Union and the Undergraduate Economics Society. The two-fold purpose of this meeting is to point out to students the opportunities of agriculture as a vocation, and to create a formal organization among alumni engaged in farming. The final list of speakers and their subjects is as follows: "Rural Organization", by the Hon. Carl Vrooman '94, of Washington, D.C., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; and "The College and the Farmer", by Clyde L. Davis, Secretary of the Sand Hill Board of Trade...
Cornell will play all her football games at Ithaca in the new Schoellkopf Stadium next fall. The formal dedication, however, will not take place until the Williams game, October...
...Secretary of the Corporation has announced that Harvard University had intended to extend to Professor Kuno Meyer a formal invitation to lecture at the University on the subject "Celtic Literature" in which he is so eminent; but in view of his active propoganda among the Irish in behalf of Germany, and the neutral attitude assumed by the University in regard to the war, it was decided not to extend the invitation...
...Royce contributes a brief "Word for the Times," which, too, is well worth framing, especially the thoughts he puts in the mouth of the youth of today. Professor Fitch discusses "Religion and the Undergraduate," and tries to find why a larger proportion of students do not come under the formal religious teaching of the University. He thinks we need more doctrinal preaching. One wonders if the strongest call to ingenuous youth does not come in preaching, as in teaching, through large and human personality. Dr. Fitch's own success would seem to answer in the affirmative...
With nearly a whole continent plunged in war and destruction, comes a formal announcement from the neutral state of Norway that the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded as usual in 1915. For the first time this bears a peculiar significance. Even though most of the European diplomats are using their greatest efforts to postpone peace until a decisive military victory is won, the Norwegian Parliament may yet find one who stands out as a peacemaker. It is quite probable, however, that the Prize will be awarded to some statesman from the Western Hemisphere. In the present year there exists...