Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dental School has organized a swimming team and had two meets, one with the Malden Y. M. C. A. team, a victory, and one with Andover, a defeat. Although the Law School has always had many men in gymnasium work, this is the first formal organization of an athletic team by a Graduate School as such...
...case of Mr. Wilson, however and his foreign mission the practice has been carried to an extreme. The most trivial incidents of his daily life, the most matter of fact circumstances connected with his reception have been advertised with brazen complacency. When the British offered him the only formal entertainment that could be extended to the head of a great nation, the papers made much of the royal treatment this "prince of democracy" was getting. To give all the real news connected with the mission is only reasonable: We want to know exactly what is happening over there...
These two games will mark the resumption of formal sport with Yale and Princeton on a pre-war basis. The last matches in hockey between the three teams were played during the winter of 1917, when the University defeated Yale 5-0, but lost to Princeton...
...less quick than the Congress to attest. The Governor of New York, Colonel Roosevelt's life long State, has set the example which other governors are following in rapid succession, the Governor of Rhode Island being the first of the New England governors to set the day apart, by formal proclamation for services commemorative of the life and work of the great American. A committee of citizens headed by Mr. Taft, Secretary Lane and Cardinal Gibbons has called upon the governors to join in making the day a truly national memorial, and today came a wireless message of approval from...
...preliminary athletic contests, group games, class and intramural races, and formal gymnastic displays might be left with the regularly appointed instructors to arrange--but all final athletic contests and intercollegiate matches and games may best be left with the student athletic organizations to manage under the supervision of an athletic committee as at present constituted. No college, in my opinion, can consistently require its students to engage in strenuous athletic contests with students from another college...