Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symposium, March 18, at 8 p.m., and the concert, March 17 at 8:30 p.m., will both be open to the public. There will also be a formal dance and House dinner for House members only...
Both Deans Watson and Leighton yesterday denied rumors that outside pressure had been brought to bear on them not to take any formal action against the HYRC. Wide-spread rumors are circulating throughout the University to the effect that undergraduates interested in the outcome of the HYRC elections have sent letters to wealthy Republicans asking that they exert economic pressure in the University's current fund drive...
...money is part of a large grant made by the Ford Foundation in 1955, some of which has been used to increase faculty salaries, and some to endow new chairs. In allotting the money to the masters, the Corporation advised them not to use it for maintenance or for formal academic instruction...
...spectacular finish to their campaign, Dupont supporters borrowed a Cadillac limousine from the grandmother of one of their number, prevailed upon a Yale freshman to impersonate their candidate, and appropriated Widener's steps for a formal ribon cutting ceremony and rally Tuesday...
After this matter has been settled, Hoffman's discussion turns to Formal Aspects, the first being literary. He says, "While a thesis need not be the work of beauty with rolling periods in the Churchillian style, it must conform to certain accepted grammatical usages." He explains that "there should be sentences," and proposes that it is time for the senior to learn a coherent sentence form. "This," he says, "is the time to take down your grammar of the English language from its shelf." Hoffman, however, has been negligent in reading his own style book, for he states that...