Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatise is divided into three sections: Some reminders on substance, Formal aspects of the thesis, and Some other mechanical points. Skip the last if you're rushed. The first, while brief, makes two very important points. It begins, "A thesis should have a beginning, a middle, and an end." This seems reasonable enough, but Hoffman then suggests that it really need not have a middle when he says, "A reader should be able to read the opening and concluding portions of the thesis and at once have a clear idea of what the author is talking about and of what...
Unless a strong tutorial system is firmly anchored in the House system, it cannot realize its potential. Ideally, the student's tutor should live in the House, where formal meetings would be regular, but also where informal contact would be frequent. Hopefully, with additional Houses and reduced crowding, the University will be able to approach the ideal, but sheer weight of numbers and dictates of the budget make a return to the system of the early '30's highly unlikely. Increased funds from foundations, and perhaps a reapportionment of some University funds, can undoubtedly strengthen the tutorial program...
...Queen's plane rolled to a stop, he climbed briskly aboard, entered Elizabeth's private compartment, and, less than two minutes later, appeared again at the cabin door at a protocol distance behind his poised and smiling wife. A few minutes later, after a round of formal smiles and handshakes, the royal couple, apparently unconscious of the peering eyes of the press and the world, entered their car and drove off in dignified silence to the yacht Britannia...
...With no formal lectures to give and no student manuscripts to read, what would be Author Faulkner's contribution to Virginia students? "The contribution would come out of my experience as a writer, as a craftsman, in contact with a desire of young people to be writers and craftsmen. Out of 100, there may be one who will get something out of the fact that I was in Charlottesville...
Before the formal switch-throwing, the EBWR had been working off and on for nearly three months. Much has already been learned about its possibilities; its approach looks promising...