Word: formally
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...themselves, they declined to see in it anything more than a revival of the sectional feuds which it was really intended to allay; and, instead of coming forward to sign it in a friendly spirit, as they were most cordially invited to do, they proceeded to organize a formal opposition, which partook more plainly of the famous spirit of AEsop's dog in the manger than any college movement within the recollection of the present generation of students...
Somebody or other once said that if a couple of Americans were shipwrecked on a desert island, they would at once proceed to organize a meeting. One would take the chair, the other would be secretary; and they would pass a series of formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of their position, and the methods which they proposed to adopt to ward off starvation and death. There is a good deal of truth in this. We are so enamored of free institutions that we never like to do anything without the sanction of parliamentary forms. And when we find ourselves...
...Amherst Student is more interesting than usual. It contains an article upon "Thackeray and George Eliot," - a new departure from the eternal "Thackeray and Dickens" of past years, for which we cannot sufficiently thank it. It publishes a formal set of resolutions recently passed by the Sophomore class, to the effect that Freshmen shall be permitted to carry canes on and after March...
...seems appropriate to remind the present Seniors of their responsibility in the matter of voluntary recitations. Voluntary recitations must be regarded as still on trial, as they have not yet received the formal and permanent sanction of the authorities, and when it is remembered that this the second year of the trial will be held peculiarly decisive, it becomes the obvious duty of Seniors to avail themselves but sparingly of the privilege of cutting. Like the orator who spoke not to his audience but to posterity, the Seniors should feel the gravity of their position. It rests in great part...
...President of the Institute, from '78. Mr. Kidder was then called upon to reply for "The Ladies," and Mr. Swift afterwards made some remarks in answer to the toast, "The Institute of 1770." He said that the Class of '77 had somewhat changed the society by making it less formal, and he advised the class, which was about to carry it on, to keep up its informal nature...