Word: formality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...setting aside of one day as Phi Beta Kappa Day has been found of great value, and more is being made of the exercises held on that day. On Monday morning, June 15, the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold a business meeting and afterwards there will be formal exercises in Sanders Theatre; at which President Lowell will announce the various academic prizes won by students during the year. At the conclusion of these exercises the society will hold a dinner in the Union. From the point of view of the average Senior, however, the most important event...
Wednesday, June 17, will be given over to class reunions and celebrations, and in the afternoon the second of the Yale series will be played on Soldiers Field. On Thursday, Commencement Day, formal exercises, including the awarding of diplomas, will be held in Sanders Theatre, and here also the Latin and English orations will be delivered. On Friday and Saturday the Harvard and Yale races are scheduled to take place on the Thames, and on Saturday, also, in case of a tie in the baseball games, the Crimson and Blue nines will meet in New York for the deciding contest...
Those who wish to see more rowing contests, on the theory that more races make for better crews and better sport, will approve the sending of the second University crew to the American Henley. No sport demands more strenuous training and yet has fewer formal contests than rowing--a condition that can be remedied by widening its scope. The resumption of interest and the re-entrance of a crew in the American Henley is good...
Elbert Peets 2G.S., of Cleveland, O., has been awarded first place in the semiannual Topiarian Trophy Competition. The subject was the designing of a large formal garden for a private estate. Second and third places were won by Benjamin Yoe Morrison 1G.S., of Washington, D. C., and by Stanley Hart White 1G.S., of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., respectively...
...University Debating Council will be held in Boston tonight at 6 o'clock. Various speeches will be made, and Judge A. P. Stone '93, will present Coolidge gold medals to the regular members of the University triangular teams and silver medals to the alternates. This dinner marks the formal close of the University debating season...