Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find his group trip takes him to the surrounding countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany as well as various parts of the Netherlands. If so, he will have an opportunity to sense the hostility which many of his Dutch friends still feel for the Germans, despite the formal cordial relations between the two countries...
There is, obviously, no formal "program of education." The seminars generally arise from the interests of a group of members. Some seminars, especially in the School of Mathematics, meet each week to discuss what is, in the words of Oppenheimer, "new and difficult in the field." Other seminars discuss "older material, material which may range back one or two years." At the present time, astrophysicist Bengt Stromgren, newly arrived at the Institute, is giving a series of lecture-seminars on his special field of interest...
...community is an abnormal one both in ability and interests and its physical isolation is quite in keeping with its intellectual isolation, although its intellectual remoteness would be much greater if Princeton University were not in the area. The Institute has no formal tie with the University, it manages to be part of the University community through allowing Princeton students and faculty to attend seminars at the Institute and enjoying a similar privilege at Princeton...
...Institute for Advanced Study is alone in its position of educational granduer. It is a community where the member teaches the professor as well as where the professor teaches the member. It is interested only in the most advanced and difficult areas of learning. It has no laboratories and formal courses...
...formal reply by a department spokesman said such international conferences should be avoided until there are "reasonable grounds for expecting they would bring beneficial results...