Word: formality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their U. S. colleagues. Secretary Hoover of the U. S. Department of Commerce called up by telephone from Washington to say, through an amplifier, how sorry he was not to be able to welcome them in person. Guido Semenza of Italy, the Commission's president, replied. There were formal words of greeting from the heads of the various delegations-including Dr. Howard T. Barnes* of Canada; Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook of England; Professor P. Strecker of Germany; G. J. Darrieus of France; Professor M. Chatelain of Russia, the Soviets' chief reconstruction engineer...
Painlevé Definite. War Minister Paul Painlevé announced late in the week that the Riffian pourparlers in Paris (see "In the Riff") had resulted in an agreement to hold formal peace negotiations between representatives of France and of Abd-el-Krim at Outdhjda, Morocco. M. Painlevé stated that the Outdhjda conference would assemble "as soon as possible, probably within a fortnight." He let it be made known that France does not recognize Abd-el-Krim as "Sultan" but merely as caĩd of the Beni Ouriaghel tribe. The French will accordingly invite...
...notion that the taught may somewhat teach their teachers ? a notion that went out of fashion as formal universities came in at the end of the Middle Ages, but which has been revived of recent years ? was reiterated last week by ten Harvard undergraduates who submitted the fruits of a five-month scrutiny of the socioeducational plant and plan to which they had submitted their so-called formative years. Unlike similar surveys lately made at Dartmouth and Bowdoin, the young Harvard gentlemen had been urged to their task by no authority higher than their own creative curiosity. They...
...letter just received at New York, Mr. Paleuk of Prague, speaking for the Czeckoslovak Student Union, has issued the following formal invitation to the groups from Harvard and other American colleges and universities which will visit Czechoslovakia this summer...
...game on Saturday against a team made up to a great extent of former University lacrosse players, was largely scheduled to give the team experience and did not serve to point out the probable line up for next Thursday when Captain Reed's stickmen have their first formal clash in the game with the Oxford-Cambridge team...