Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the inception of this experienced direction. Were it not that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When...
...guest steps next into an oval room done in blue and gold. Formal gilt chairs stand at attention along the silken walls. The north end of the room is roped off with a plush cord, behind which, beholding the spectacle, stands an especially splendid group of persons, the prime guests of the evening...
President of the new association is Charles A. Sloan, formerly in charge of broadcasting for the New York World. Herbert Bayard Swope, retired executive editor of the World, was reported to have given advice on the enterprise but he denied having any formal connection with it. The former Swopian Secretary, Miss H. A. Millar, is secretary of the new company...
...Bolivia, Flyer LeBrix could constrain himself no longer. It was at the French minister's reception to them, and before that formal throng he loudly complained that his companion was making himself the hero of the flight. The Latins there were vexed with his apparent unmannerliness...
Obviously confirmation or denial by the University of the naming of a new treasurer would indicate acceptance of the resignation of Mr. Adams, who also has avoided formal announcement that he has been chosen by Mr. Hoover for the post of Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Adams prefers announcement to come from the office of the new Chief Executive...