Word: informality
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...molested." This, in effect, is what the meeting of Tuesday means. When public opinion is thus spineless as a caterpillar on so important a matter, it is no wonder that langour and indifferance are to record in athletics. No doubt it would be disagreeable for a college "man" to inform the authorities against one of his class; but this is not a question of personal pleasure, it is a question of duty. You undergraduates hold in trust the buildings and material which generations of benefactors have bequeathed for your use; but you are responsible to the classes which will come...
...Resolved, That the Secretary of the University be requested to acknowledge the receipt of the communication from the mass meeting of students held Monday evening, and to inform the committee that the Faculty receives with satisfaction the assurance that the misconduct of Saturday night is heartily condemned by the public opinion of the students...
Friday night at a meeting of the Boating Committee, it was decided to disband the 'varsity crew. It was also voted that Walter Peet and Jasper T. Goodwin should be sent as a committee to the conference between Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell, and inform them of Columbia's withdrawal from the race. In case they refuse to accept Columbia's retirement, the freshman crew will be entered as the 'varsity...
...have also enclosed postal cards to secretaries of societies, captains of athletic teams, and other man who are likely to have news. We urge them to inform us, by the easy means of these cards, whenever they have any items of news, or can put us on the track of any. Events of interest to the college at large are constantly coming to the knowledge of these men. It is impossible for us to know everything that is happening, and difficult to know just when to look for things that we expect. We ask men who have the means...
...communication published in another column, the management of the Glee club refer to our editorial article of March 1 as containing "indefinite and absurd charges." We wish to inform these gentlemen that our criticism was based upon complaints from members of the club itself. We can name some of the members "who are so disgusted with the management of the club that they are ready to resign." We have yet to find any one who considers the record of the club through the autumn and winter as good as its record in recent years. Even the management of the club...