Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peter, an English cleric, lives among the unrealities of pre-war England. Formal religious duties fill his working hours, and unreal religious conceptions his thoughts. There is a fiancee as unreal as all the rest. Conventional thoughts and aspirations and sentiments combine in her to make a personality that is a mere summation of unrealities. But all these things are real to Peter in "Simon Called Peter" by Robert Keable. The surface of the man leads its tranquil surface existence...
...after such a gruelling contest as that with Princeton, chalked up a long string of goals against M. I. T. in a practice scrimmage yesterday afternoon and at the same time held the Engineers scoreless. Friday evening of this week the Crimson will face M. I. T. in a formal way for the first time this season when it plays the Engineers in a regularly scheduled game at the Arena...
...Michigan Daily thinks "the method of instituting competitive athletics and arousing student interest is far superior in getting students to exercise than the compulsory gymnastic system some colleges have devised. Both are beneficial, but the interest of the student in voluntary athletics far outclasses the mechanical motions of formal calisthenics, and is certain to do as much to keep him physically...
...Arthur L. Endicott '94 has been appointed Bursar of the University to succeed Mr. Charles F. Mason '82, who retired from active duty on December 1. Mr. Endicott will begin work next Monday as Acting Bursar, and his formal appointment as Bursar will date from June 13 next, when Mr. Mason's resignation takes effect...
...competition was a problem in landscape design. The competitors were furnished with a topographic map of a given piece of property in an attractive Massachusetts town, on which a house, somewhat in the Italian style, had already been erected. The owner wished to construct a formal garden of some distinction according with the style of the house, of which a photograph was furnished the competitors...