Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxious to avenge last Saturday's overwhelming defeat at the hands of Rhode Island, the Crimson track team plays host to an underpar Tufts aggregation in a formal dual meet at the Stadium tomorrow afternoon. Field events get under way at 1:30 o'clock, while the track meet starts at 3 o'clock...
...perennial runners-up in the American League race, need little formal introduction, save for a few new faces. Joe Cronin isn't certain of his starting pitcher, but if the lineup he used against Boston College yesterday is any indication, both the hurler and the rest of the club should be pretty much the outfit which will represent the those all season. PROBABLE LINEUP Forts, 2b ss, Lake Clark, rf rf, Fox Heath, lf 2b, Doerr Fitzgibbons, c lf, Simmons Flynn, of lb, Lupien Gallagher, 3b of, Garrison Slattery, 1b 3b, Taber or Newsome Gleason, ss 'c, Peacock Berg...
...belonged to the Allies. Across its trackless terrain thundered all the fine names-the Flying Fortresses, Halifaxes, Wellingtons, Liberators, Bisleys, Mitchells, Bostons, Marauders, Baltimores, Lightnings, Spitfires, Beaufighters, Hurri-bombers, Aira-cobras, Kittyhawks, Warhawks. But though the aerial terrain was trackless, the pattern of the thunder was very exact, very formal-and very effective...
Although a great many under graduates have come to regard it as a pre-examination breathing spell, the reading period was originally adopted, back in 1927-28, in order to provide a greatly overtaxed Harvard faculty with a periodic relief from formal academic duties, which they might devote to independent study. The Faculty, required to assume a double burden in teaching at both undergraduate and graduate schools, were able to use advantageously a period of three weeks each term, like the famed "long vacations" of the English universities. Upperclassmen, faced with general examinations, welcomed the spring reading period especially...
What is needed is a greater correlation of tutorial work with the reading period. Instead of permitting tutorial assignments to lapse during the period, there should be a much higher degree of cooperation between student and tutor. Brevity of formal reading period assignments becomes an advantage if tutorial assignments permit adjustment to the ability of the individual student. The tutor should aid the student to conceive of the subject as a whole: at the same time, he should permit and help the student investigate those phases of the subject of greatest interest and value to him. Permitting a choice...