Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good year for anthologies, a better one still for popular dictionaries. American Harvest ($3.50), edited by Allen Tate and John Peale Bishop, proved that many U.S. contemporaries have achieved a broad and respect able mastery of literature's one sure preservative: form. In properly honoring formal accomplishment, the editors were inclined to undervalue literary vitality. A Treasury of the Familiar ($5), edited by Ralph L. Woods, usefully disregarded taste and value in favor of collating hundreds of literary tags, good, bad & in different, which lie, on the literate tongue, just between tantalizing half-memory and ready reference...
Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck...
...decided to allow Seniors and Juniors who will graduate in June to attend the formal graduation exercises, since so many of them will not be here for the ceremonies that would normally be held by their class, Harvey said. However, limitations of space have made it necessary to restrict the dance to the Class of 1943 and the half-dozen Juniors who will be graduating next month...
...present plans crystallize, furthermore, a simple formal dance will be held, probably in Lowell House, on Saturday evening. A Senior supper was also mentioned as a possibility by the Committee...
Full consideration in regulations on College admissions and academic standing after the war will be given to records of members in the services who study under the Army Institute program, Dean--Buck announced last night following a formal vote of approval by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Faculty, however, registered its emphatic disapproval of granting credit without regard for educational achievements on a blanket basis...