Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...institutions of conventional Protestantism, the country cousins began to look increasingly like religious radicals. Under the influence of the Wesleyan "Evangelical Movement," with its emphasis on Scriptural authority, the Fall of Man and the Atonement of Christ, many (but not all) city Quakers came to lean more & more on formal theology. On visits to the cities for Yearly Meeting, country Friends began to feel uncomfortable. The center of the religious crisis was the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting...
...From Philadelphia the split spread, resulting in bitter lawsuits, un-Quakerly polemics. Even today some Orthodox Friends look askance at the indifference of many Hicksites to formal theology. Some Hicksites feel an "uneasiness" at Orthodox attitudes. But the conciliatory principles of Friends, and above all the joint management of such Quaker ministrations as the American Friends Service Committee, have made a healing of the breach inevitable, however slow...
Discretion to be exercised by the Committee on Admissions for exceptional students has been traditional in the past and will probably exist in the future regardless of formal requirements...
...persons asking the best questions during the discussion period which will follow formal presentation of the subject by the speakers, four books will be awarded...
Having just completed organization of a dance committee, the Freshmen will swing into gear on their social season a trifle late for the traditional November madness. They plan a formal dance in the Union a few weekends later...