Word: formalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awards provide for newspaper men of at least three years' experience a full academic year of study at the same salaries the recipients received from their papers. There are no requirements as to age or formal education...
...Formal Courses...
...Formal course instruction is not stressed in the study plan, but is merely contributory to a program of lectures, seminars, private reading, and dinners with outstanding newspaper men and faculty members. No special courses are offered for the Fellows, and there are no courses in journalism. The whole regular field of instruction at the university is open to the Fellows...
...greatest hope as a potential puppet-Marshal Wu Pei-fu, jovial poet, patriot, warlord. The Marshal died after an operation for an infected tooth. For a long time he led the Japanese to believe he would take the job they offered, but when the time came for his formal acceptance (at a party to which foreign correspondents were invited), he said to the Japanese, in effect: I shall become a puppet on the day when you little men go back to your little islands...
Speakers read formal papers in the mornings, in the afternoons the scientists gathered at "round tables" for informal discussion. Some of these sessions grew so heated that they finished in the hall outside the conference room. From the sidelines University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins rather tartly reminded the delegates that in 1929 the world had a much greater sense of social well-being than it has today. Henry Bruere, onetime U. of C. social worker, now president of Manhattan's big Bowery Savings, pointed out that the first time social scientists really got their teeth...