Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chemistry, tutorial instruction would probably accomplish little, as the field is well-knit. The flexibility in advanced course work gives the exceptional student ample opportunity to expand, and formal classification of students into Group A and Group B would be superfluous. It would seem desirable, however, to force the students in the field who would normally fall into Group B to integrate their material for a general examination at the end of the college career. They would at least know as much chemistry at graduation then, as they had at any point earlier in college. Such familiarity is unusual, because...
...actors, not yet informed of the agreement, swarmed to Hollywood's barnlike American Legion Stadium with minds made up about how to mark the strike ballots they were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal machine. The vote was for a strike...
...Harvard Memorial Society meets tonight for its annual banquet in the Society of Fellows room of Eliot House. The meeting will also be the occasion for the formal initiation for new members...
Charles Burwell '39 and Francis C. Eaton '38 head the committee in charge of arrangements. Semi-formal dress is requested, and the tickets are $3.75 per couple and $2.25 stag...
...paradox. He recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted so that the community might eat." Nevertheless, said he: "The formal elegance of the Altamira bison; the grandeur of outline in the Norwegian rock engravings of bear, elk and whale; the cornucopian fecundity of Rhodesian animal landscapes; the kinetic fury of the East Spanish huntsmen; the spontaneous ease with which the South African draftsmen mastered the difficult silhouets of moving creatures: these are achievements...