Word: formality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sargent wishes to have the announcement made that no assignment of lockers will be made until a notice from him is printed in the CRIMSON. Students would greatly aid the early opening of the Gymnasium by keeping out of the building until the formal opening is made...
...insignia. At Harvard the 'varsity blazer was long ago relegated in consequence of vulgar misappropriation, the red sweater is following it, and now the letter H has started on the downward path. The English system is of course frankly aristocratic, but it does insure to an athlete whatever formal distinction his college regards as fitting...
...with genuine pleasure that Harvard undergraduates welcome the representatives of old Cambridge. While those who have been chosen to give to the English athletes the formal greetings of the University and to provide for their entertainment, will do all in their power to make the visit a pleasant one, there is not a man in the University who does not feel a personal interest in the hospitality which will be extended today...
...report the work of the previous week, or some special thought which has been suggested by it. The discussion following ought to send him back to his work with new ideas or a new outlook. Secondly, there will be meetings of the whole club at breakfast for less formal conversation on the literary aspects of the classics. If possible financially, these social meetings will come once a week. At some of the breakfasts guests might be entertained who would talk informally on some literary topic. Thirdly, if the conferences should develop a desire for instruction on some special point, endeavors...
...Harvard athletic authorities up to a late hour last night. This fact in itself shows pretty conclusively that the report that a copy of the challenge had been sent by cable to Harvard and Yale was incorrect, as it should have arrived yesterday at the latest. That a formal challenge has been sent by mail there is no reason to doubt...