Word: formally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...200th anniversary of the removal of Yale University from Saybrook to New Haven has been carried out by an elaborate program of exercises for the last three days. The initial event was the production of the masque, "Cupid and Psyche," in the art school Friday evening. A formal historical meeting commemorating the moving of the university was held in Battell Chapel on Saturday. The meeting consisted of a sermon by President Hadley, an historical address by Professor Willison Walker and an exchange of greetings between the city and the university...
...meeting of the Forum to consider the arguments of both parties in the present fight, the Republican Club suggests that the joint discussion between the two parties be held at this meeting. In this way a greatest number of political enthusiasts can put forward their arguments than if a formal debate between selected members of the Republican and Democratic clubs was held...
...meet the demand of men who intend to enter business houses in foreign countries, conversation courses have been instituted at Harvard in German, Spanish and French. But these very courses are allowed to be over-run with formal grammar and written translations. The conspicuous characteristic of such courses is the students' silence. Usually the conversation in the particular foreign language is limited to the professor's monologue. The mistake lies in the impossible attempt to weld both practical and cultural aims. Since poetry is not taught in conjunction with plumbing, why should art be combined with the language of foreign...
What the final outcome of this first mobilization will be is a question no one can answer. A formal declaration of war would certainly mean a call for more volunteers, but whatever developments occur the attitude of Harvard undergraduates towards the present critical situation should be sane. Naturally every man wants to serve his country, and fulfill his military duty towards her immediately. Four or five hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts...
...Freshmen who will be in or near Boston on Class Day, June 20, are urged to be present when the Seniors make a formal presentation of the class colors to 1919. The ceremony will take place early in the afternoon, and H. C. Flower. Jr., '19, president of the Freshman class, will be in the Yard to marshal the members of the class who attend...