Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work is intended to be a textbook for formal courses in public speaking and discussion; to provide a manual for literary and debating societies, and to give the ordinary worker, not a specialist in the subjects treated, suggestion and assistance. In these three classes the book will be of great value, as it states concisely the principal arguments, pro and con, on a large number of the important topics of the day; that it presents working bibliographies on these topics; and that it gives examples of logical statement, and suggests a systematic method for the treatment of other topics...
Commencement exercises are an innovation at Radcliffe for until last year there was no formal awarding of degrees...
...committee, who had charge of the convention, but the members of the committee, realizing that the entire work was performed by two of its members, H. Friedberg '96, chairman of the Democratic committee and R. W. Sprague '96, secretary and treasurer of the convention, has determined to limit the formal vote of thanks to these two men alone. The finances of the convention were well managed and after all the various expenses have been met, the small balance of two or three dollars will be turned over to the Harvard Forum, from which the committee was appointed...
...faculties of the Yale law and medical schools are arranging for a formal interchange of courses. A course in medical jurisprudence in the law school will be open to the medical students. It will be conducted by Professor W. C. Robinson, and the courses in the medical school will be under Professors Carmal and Ferris in, respectively, surgery and anatomy. Hitherto members of each department have been obliged to take a post-graduate year to study the work in the other...
...Coleridge, Edward Fitzgerald, Flaubert, and Stevenson. The Coleridge volumes contain the fullest record yet printed of the poet's life, the long struggle with opium, and an indolent and irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection as a whole shows Arnold...