Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of the second day of Commencement Week will be the formal opening of the new Fogg Art Museum this morning at 11 o'clock. President Lowell will preside at the exercises which are to be held in the interior courtyard of the museum...
...this must not mean that the work done in the first part of each term is untouched by the examinations. There is a danger here that without a check, easy-going students may postpone the study and reading which should be done throughout the period of formal teaching, thus leaving it to be done in the reading period. A student might therefore find himself saddled in the reading period with a double amount of work: that which should have been done in conjunction with his daily lectures and classes, and that which is assigned for the reading period...
...With the reduction in the length of the period of formal teaching, the reading periods should become the logical time for doing some of these reports. Theses and independent work develop the same qualities in a student, and it would perhaps be better therefore, that instructors postpone the written reports until the time comes when free and independent work is in order. Similarly, in the more advanced science courses, the student could be offered liberal opportunity for laboratory problems in the reading periods. The whole of this proposition depends upon the co-operation of professors, for professors may forget that...
...June 12, 1899 the Harvard and Yale Athletic Associations received a formal challenge from the athletic heads of Oxford and Cambridge to compete in a track meet in England sometime during the summer. The challenge was subsequently accepted and on July 22 in London the first of a long series of international meets, the latest one of which is scheduled for this summer, was held. The English universities won the meet by a 5 to 4 score-only first places counting and only nine events being scheduled. Since this first encounter between the Oxford-Cambridge and Harvard-Yale track representatives...
...larger Harvard--whether it would not have greatly added to that smaller and more centralized institution whose era preceded it. At any rate it is impossible to conceive of Harvard without this most admirable aid to collegiate orientation. And now another link is added--McKinlock Hall, the formal dedication of which takes place today...