Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close of the Sanders Theatre debate the audience will vote for the team which they think has presented the better case. The formal decision, however, will be rendered by the following judges: Dean Homer Albers of the Boston University Law School, Reverend H. E. B. Speight of Kings Chapel and Mr. F. S. Snyder, president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce...
Yale's experiment is merely the formal recognition of a principle that has been gaining strength with thoughtful examiners everywhere. The best teachers in the University, consciously or unconsciously, divide their examinations into questions of the two types. The professor who is really concerned with making his quizzes something more than perfunctory tests, or snares and pitfalls for the unprepared, has already discovered and adopted this idea. But for others, who give less attention to the mechanics of their courses, some such arbitrary distinction might be useful...
Senator Brookhart, who has threatened to wear overalls to formal dinners, naturally finds it contrary to his principles to wear a silk hat. But he is willing to make an exception. " I will wear a silk hat," said he, " at the inauguration to the Presidency of Judge William S. Kenyon of Iowa...
...degree of legal science, presumably in celebration of his experiences as the Prime Minister of his native country. But, laws and premiership notwithstanding, Paderewski remains the ideal figure of a musician. During his present American tour he is seen in his most characteristic guise not so much in the formal parts of his program as in impromptu encores. During the applause after his last announced number, the lights on the stage go out, and in the shadow Paderewski takes his place at the piano. He plays simply and intimately, as though for a dozen friends lounging in a parlor...
...printing communications it is customary for the CRIMSON to safeguard itself with a formal statement disclaiming responsibility. The sentence printed today seems so appropriate that the usual precaution is omitted. Regardless of opinion on the subject which the Liberal Club discussed, a formal declaration of its creed was pointless and ill-advised. Between the means of publicity which the club undoubtedly has at its disposal and the not unnatural tendency of the newspapers towards the sensational, it will not be surprising to see metropolitan headlines declaring that "Harvard Students Decide Against Limitation." A real decision cannot be reached at this...