Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After all, this formal renewal of friendship is an achievement which in time to come should mean more to Harvard and to Yale than victory or defeat. Harvard is glad to meet her old foes again, and glad that hereafter the meetings on the home grounds will render freer than before social and personal intercourse. Yale men and Harvard men, however their petty prejudices and superficial traits may differ, are nevertheless of the same stock. They are both more thoroughly cosmopolitan than men from other colleges. They come from all ranks of society, and from all sections of the country...
...give full vent to the interest in debating which might easily be aroused. In the first place there are waiting lists of men who can not be admitted to the courses. Furthermore; we think that many are deterred even from applying for admission, because the work is exceedingly formal and laborious, because the discipline is notoriously strict, and because the hour is 3.30 to 6 or 6.30. These are features alike necessary and uninviting...
...these things were it not for the fact that several important games-and victorious games, too, we believe-still remain. In view of this, is the whole University patiently to submit to the disgrace of Saturday night? To do nothing to discover the offenders? To invite by mere formal protest in its publications a renewal of such actions in the near future? Is there no way by which the celebration of all athletic victories can be managed by a large and widely representative committee of undergraduates duly elected for that purpose...
...formal protest has been or will be made to the referee concerning Hoffman, the Penn. sprinter...
...particularly the class figures, should perhaps be so lowered that the struggle need not be so violent and that "concerted action" might not be necessary. But that the scrimmage is brutal, that football clothes should not be worn, and so practically that the old scrimmage should develop into a formal presentation to each Senior of a boutenniere, is absurd. A man may take part in the scrimmage without losing dignity or without being brutal or ungentlemanly...