Word: formality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale's new gymnasium. though it has been in constant use since the opening of the college year, has not as yet been formally received by the university. The gymnasium cooperation has decided to transfer the title and possession of the building to the university authorities, and the formal opening will take place next January. An extensive programme is being arranged, which will probably include an exhibition of various kinds of indoor athletics...
...favor of the cap and gown and how well they held in their practical illustration, it seems to us that it is a good custom for Ninety-three to continue. Certainly in the face of the success of last year it seems inexpedient to go back to the cold, formal and inappropriate dress suit...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in 12 sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
Sainte Beuve was the foremost engineer in literature. He gave a new impulse to criticism and brought it up to a place of vital importance. In 1828, he published his first formal contribution to literature in the form of a criticism, the aim being to show that the early poets were the ancestors of the romanticists. In the course of the next ten years he published three volumes of poetry. Though the verses were well written and often of a religious turn of mind they did not meet with the success he had anticipated. He realized that he was intended...
...will be no principal disputants, but the debate will be open to the floor for five-minute speeches. This action has been taken in order to afford a better opportunity to those who desire to practice speaking. There is a feeling at present that the regular debates are too formal; and besides many men do not care to spend the whole evening at the Union nor can they take time to prepare themselves beforehand. For this reason the principal disputants are done away with and the subject is not announced beforehand, so that all present are on an equal footing...