Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Founder Barnes has preserved the col egiate informality of his early meetings. At bon mots the Evening Club audiences laugh as they dare not in formal church. Points well-given and taken are applauded not by silent acquiescent nods but by vigorous beating of palm on palm. When the meeting closes, people go out on Michigan Avenue. Some look up at the Chevrolet sign that gives the time every 60 seconds, and set their watches with nobler intentions...
...thinking it is not sufficient for the President of the United States to communicate his views in writing to Congress and now and then make one or two strictly formal speeches on some set subject before some select chamber of commerce or board of trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...
...that are so often used to demonstrate the greatly superior earning power of college men has started an investigation of these figures at Columbia. In the new division of Economics of Education, graduate students are delving for the human equation beneath the never questioned fact that each year of formal education equals a step in a geometric progression of salary increases. The leader of the research, Dr. Clark, says confidently "We believe that we are on the road to finding a startling reversal of facts that will affect the whole economic foundation of education in this country...
...Democrats quake. Though three other sects have been indirectly affected by political pleas of one sort or another, the Walker pronouncement is the first direct appeal from the highest official of a denomination to all members of his communion. It is therefore signifcant as the possible beginning of a formal Dry crusade led by unanimous Elder Statesmen of U. S. Protestantism. Not carelessly to be dismissed are the following spurts, which though lacking the universal imprimatur of the highest church officials, may be taken as indicative of how a Protestant army is being mustered...
Yesterday afternoon at the hearing of the Beck Hall Trust before the Board of Appeals, E. S. Emery '87, Assistant Comptroller of the University, field a formal objection to the erection of the projected ten story apartment building planned by the Trust. This opposition from Harvard puts an entirely new aspect upon the proposed improvement of the Beck Hall property...