Word: formality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock the Union will be closed to regular members and those on the invitation list will be admitted by the ladies' entrance at the east end of the building. The formal reception will be held in the Living Room from 9 to 10 o'clock, followed by a light supper which will be served in the Dining Room. At 9.30 o'clock dancing will begin in the Periodical Room and will continue until midnight...
...room in Grays. Finally, in 1900, when Phillips Brooks House was opened, the Society moved into its present quarters. The membership of the Society is now about 250 and is steadily increasing. Within the last year the Society has changed its policy from one of chiefly formal membership to an organization of working fellowship with a wider scope of work. Besides its bible study meetings, weekly conferences, and social service work, it is planning to establish a mission for men and boys in Somerville, and in time to take charge of all the religious and settlement work in that town...
Hidden away in the formal official announcement of the Christmas vacation that appears to be but the repetition of similar announcements of years past, there is a real and significant change of policy. Until this year students who live in the far South and West have been allowed to leave Cambridge a day or two before the vacation began so that they might reach their homes at approximately the same time as those who live near Cambridge, but no similar arrangement was made at the other end of the holiday. Some men have had to leave home on New Year...
...thirty new members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society whose names were announced in yesterday's CRIMSON will be received into the society at a formal initiation and dinner to be held in the Union on Monday, December 11, at 6.30 o'clock...
Exhortations in formal vein having proved themselves formerly in vain, the CRIMSON casts aside its arterial robe and dons for the moment Lampy's purple and yellow gymnasium suit. Its purpose is to lay bare the shocking nakedness of Ellis and other equally deserving islands to the eyes of the University. Gentlemen! their chattering teeth exposed to the furious tempests, their blue-black lips crackling and rustling in a vain attempt to produce the sadly sweet notes of "Aw, wert thou in the cauld, cauld-slaw" these shivering inhabitants of a deserted island beg you on their unbendable and likewise...