Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official punching season, lasting about six weeks from October until early December with a three-week moratorium for hour exams, is governed by strict rules set up by the Club presidents in consultation with Dean Watson. Each club is limited to a certain number of "major functions"--large formal dinners or Sunday outings that feature lunch and a traditional touch football game at a graduate member's country home. But the number of Hasty Pudding Club lunches or of small dinners seating no more than six is unlimited, and as the competition between Clubs becomes tenser, the punching chairman frantically...
What is central to the program is the writing of a 250-page essay or the completion of a project "which must justify by its scope and quality the freedom which has been granted him." This freedom consists of no formal course requirements for the entire Senior year, although the Scholars are encouraged to audit whatever courses they like. Aside from the project, the only requirement is an oral examination in the Scholar's field at the end of the year...
...Formal adoption of the plan will presumably require amendment to present city ordinances which define rights...
...Wild Woods. In a formal homily before his coronation, John said: "In these days of great mystery and trepidation . . . we strain to hear the voices of the earth . . ." Newsmen soon found that the Pope's ear was surprisingly well attuned to these voices. In a precedent-breaking press conference in which he talked off-the-cuff in French, John spoke frankly of himself as "moi-méme," apologized for not using the traditional papal "we" with "I'm not used to it yet." He went on to say that in the excitement of the past week...
Accustomed to receiving full and formal texts of papal statements (which Pius XII painstakingly composed in advance), journalists had a hard time keeping up with John as he rattled on without notes, clapping his hands ebulliently to emphasize his points, almost bouncing in the commodious papal throne and glancing at the richly robed attendants of the papal antechamber to see if they laughed at his sallies. At the end of the conference, the Pope said cheerfully: "Now I'll give you a little blessing, if you want it-you may extend it to all those whom you keep...