Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Election of ten Freshmen to the '50 Jubilee committee is scheduled for noon today in the Houses, Union, and Dudley Hall, with all formal members of the Class of '50 eligible to vote...
Arguing the negative of the topic: "Resolved, That formal dissolution of the British Empire would contribute to the maintenance of world peace," the Cambridge debaters, Ian S. Lloyd and William Richmond, declared that Great Britain is now "striving to bring freedom, welfare, and peace to her colonies...
Radcliffe leads tonight's list with the Freshman Prom scheduled to get under way at 8 o'clock. The Graduate schools will emerge temporarily from their grind routine, with the Law School presenting its Spring formal at 9 o'clock in the Hotel Somerset and the Graduate Students Club sponsoring a dance at the Clubhouse in Appian Way at 8:30 o'clock. Rounding out weekend activity will be tomorrow night's informal dance at the Union from 8:30 to midnight, and the Dunster formal...
Terpsichorean tactics during the past months have spread dissatisfaction among the ranks of the financially unbalanced. Laboring under the excessive outlays for tuxedo rents, steeped ticket prices, and corsages, the opponents of House formal dances are dismayed at the growing burdens of social life...
Perhaps the critics have been blinded by a misconception of the number of formal dances given thus far this year. Figures show that the Houses have maintained a fairly even keel between the two kinds of entertainment. Extremes range from all informal dances at Leverett to a preponderance of formals at Lowell. The decision regarding the type of dance is made entirely by the individual dance committee of each House so that a well represented committee should be competent to test House opinion on the matter. A limit of three open dances per year for each House is the only...