Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This marks the first time in debating history that professors have participated, according to Langdon P. Marvin '41 and Allan B. Ecker '41, co-managers of House debating. After delivering formal constructive speeches, the faculty men will be cross-examined by student opponents. They will also be required to stand before questioning from the floor in a forum following the debate...
...President of the United States last week enjoyed himself in the role of country squire at Hyde Park. He gave out one formal statement, expressing his hopes that the new Wages & Hours law would work, and that employers doing intrastate business would comply with its spirit. For the rest he drove in his car through the woodland roads of his estate, watching his trees grow, and enjoyed the squirely duty of receiving visitors. No ordinary squire, he naturally had callers of no ordinary distinction...
From Progressive Kilpatrick: Should our schools make central the informal learning of experience and activity work, placing much less stress on formal, systematic assignments, discipline and obedience, and instead seeking to develop pupil initiative, discipline and responsibility as well as mastery of basic subjects by encouraging pupils to show initiative and develop responsibility, with teachers, while in control, serving primarily as guides...
...courses include one on Air Transportation, to be given by Professor George Baker. Two subjects given for the first time this year are correlated with the curriculum at the Littauer School, while two others have been organized for the first time on a formal basis...
Unobtrusively slipping by after formal classes are over, afternoon and evening lectures on countless subjects are presented by some of the ablest and most prominent members of the Faculty. The sad story is that these do slip by, unnoticed and unattended except by an alert few. Lectures open to the public as well as students have the smallest College representation, mainly because undergraduates forget time and place or consider the effort needed to go, fruitless. Unfortunately for them, they are passing by an irretrievable chance to learn something about subjects which are only names to the mind, or to pursue...