Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While other Houses have held "high table" dinners at various intervals throughout the year, Eliot has always restricted its festivals to two special occasions, the student-acted play just before Christmas and the House dinner in the spring, on the theory that one or two formal affairs were better than a series of disconnected smaller dinners...
...Houses had attempted some constructive program of their own to substitute for formal tutorial, this situation would not exist. In the thirties, with the tutorial system flourishing, there was little for the Houses to do, although even then a Crimson editorial deplored their "utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life." Today, with their failure to organize small, departmental discussion groups, to encourage more than the occasional forums held in two of the Houses, in short, to fill in the educational holes caused by a threadbare tutorial system, this "utter disregard" has become more basic...
...round of ceremony began again. President Truman drove over to the National Palace for a formal welcome by President Aleman. At 7:30 he was back for a state dinner in the Comedor under the great crystal candelabra installed by Mexico's ill-fated Maximilian and Carlotta...
Freedom & Equality. He placed his principles against such theories as those of the left-wing English scholar, Edward Hallett Carr, who wrote: "Equality in the abstract is purely formal... Even equality before the law may be a mockery when the law is framed by members of a privileged class. Freedom itself can be equally formal. Freedom to choose or refuse a job is unreal if freedom to refuse is merely tantamount to freedom to starve." It is a powerful and seductive line...
...they believe in? Is simple, vocal gratitude the sole aim of the effort? Does the American mentality ignore the psychology of charity so thoroughly that it would deem the American label on gift-food as the ultimate form of good-will missionarying? In this lone sense, Americans who demand formal notes of appreciation, or their equivalents in favors and concessions, are in great danger of becoming the suckers of America's second try at European emergency relief...