Word: banners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be six events and points will be awarded for the first three places in each event, which will count 5, 3, and 1 respectively. Medals will be given for first and second places, and ribbons for third. A large banner will also be given to the school scoring the largest number of points. The events will be horizontal bars, side-horse, flying rings, club-swinging, parallel-bars, and tumbling. The judges are to be Dr. Carl L. Schrader, gymnastic instructor of Hemenway Gymnasium, E. W. Ruge 3L., former captain of the gymnastic team at Yale, J. R. Morton...
Then there is Yale's banner. Blue signifies despair and the dank, destructive deep. It must...
...long as the banner-bearing habit is checked by this reform, some good has been accomplished, without doubt...
There are few more appalling, pernicious, and thoroughly reprehensible tendencies in modern times than banner bearing. In the light of modern investigation we clearly see that the young man in Longfellow's poem, "Excelsior," who bore a "banner with a strange device," was a dangerous fellow, who richly deserved to be lost among the snowy peaks, banner and all; that Betsy Ross should have devoted her time to knitting mufflers; that Barbara Freitchie was a foolish lady to risk her old gray head; in short that banners should be scrupulously eschewed -- especially red ones...
...Hearing on Banner Case, State House, room...