Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster and Lowell were to serve as the two extremes of the Plan. Lowell was given a raised dais and designated the "formal" house; Dunster was given its sunken garden and called the "democratic" house. This weak stab at immediate characterization never materialized. For when the other Houses opened the next year no such attempts were made to give them distinctive character. On September 30, 1930 the first two opened with 240 in Dunster and 300 in Lowell, all students living in singles and doubles...
...fables about Lowell House's intellectual martyrdom is that, alone among the House, it can fill its library on the Saturday evening of a big dance. This fable is perfectly true. Last Saturday, the evening of the big Lowell House formal, while one third of the House was prancing around in formal garb, and leading their dates to a served dinner in the dining room, another, smaller contingent was busy in the library...
...casualty figures jolted the French public. Parisians by the thousands paid visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and tiny bunches of violets, bought for a few francs in honor of nameless fallen Frenchmen half a world away, were deposited alongside the big formal wreaths that are nearly always there...
After the ships dropped anchor, the British commander paid a formal call on the admiral, his senior in rank. With im peccable punctilio, he asked permission to show his orders from the British Ad miralty "to escort the ship of the Argentine minister while it is navigating in the waters of Her Majesty." Not to be outdone, Olivieri replied that he would be pleased to act as guide for the British ship as long as it was navigating in Argentine waters...
...three changes are intended to make the relationship between a freshman and his adviser more personal and less formal than it is now. Freshman Dean von Stade and President Pusey recently met with the freshman Unions Committee to discuss this problem...