Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball at the Palace Hotel, a golf tournament at the Olympic Club's Lakeside course. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of America, biggest U. S. bank west of Manhattan, outdid itself in the matter of hospitality. To each of the bankers' ladies on the night of the formal ball, Bank of America sent a corsage of two orchids. To each of the bankers it dispatched a neat package of seven bottles of assorted California wines. To top it all off, Bank of America chartered a Douglas airliner, for three days taxied some 600 bankers on half-hour trips...
Although there was no formal vote by the Masters, there was a general understanding that if written permission of the Master of Senior Tutor was secured, students might entertain ladies in their rooms without a chaperon, provided that the party always consisted of three or more. In other words the general understanding was that the written permission would generally be granted only on Saturday, Sunday or "Open House" occasions during dances...
UNDERGRADUATE DINNER for Undergraduate Delegates, at the Harvard Club, 374 Commonwealth Avenue, at 7.00 o'clock. Tickets may be purchased for $3.00 at the CRIMSON Building. Formal Dress...
TERCENTENARY CEREMONIES. Including an Address of Welcome by Professor Edward Kennard Rand, Latin Orator; a formal recital of the acts constituting the founding of Harvard College by the Tercentenary Historian, Professor Samuel Eliot Morison; an Address from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; the Tercentenary Oration by President James Bryant Conant; and the conferring of Honorary Degrees upon a large number of Distinguished Scholars from many nations. Music will be furnished by 200 Graduates and Undergraduates under the direction of the Tercentenary Chorister, Professor Archibald Thompson Davison...
...first press release contained the terse message "The first formal action in preparation for Harvard's 300 anniversary in 1936 was taken today at the University with the announcement of a committee of ten to prepare plans for the celebration of the Tercentenary of the founding of Harvard College." The only previous action was in 1926 when another press announcement stated that Samuel E. Morison had been appointed official historian of the college for the 300th celebration...