Word: affair
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would appear in sufficient numbers to warrant a score by one of the teams and it was usually the team that had the most friends among the spectators that secured the victory. This was perhaps a relic of the ancient by-gone days when in no less of an affair than a championship intercollegiate contest the sympathizers of one of the contending teams swarmed on the field at the psychological moment and wrenched the goal posts form the ground to prevent their opponents from scoring a goal in the old-fashioned game...
...Fitch '00 of Boston will meet the Freshman Bible class tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. The meeting will be introductory to a course lasting five weeks, on the life of Christ. Since the class is purely a non-sectarian Freshman affair, all 1912 men who are interested and wish to identify themselves with Dr. Fitch are invited to be present...
There will be a sale of Spread tickets from the windows of Holworthy 2 today between 12 and 2. There are a number of tables unsold, and in order to make the Spread a Class affair, Seniors who have not yet bought tickets should do so at once. This sale will be the last opportunity to procure Spread invitations. As the box list will be made up right after this sale, Seniors should get their tickets at this time if they wish their names put on the list...
This evening's mass meeting, although without the same dramatic attractions that draw enormous crowds to the Living Room of the Union during football season; is probably the most important affair of the kind that has been held in many years. The meeting has been called for an undergraduate ratification of the committee's proposed student council. It should be remembered that the plan was drawn up with the greatest care after consultation with prominent members of the Faculty and with the Athletic Committee, and that a committee of men who have been in closest touch with athletic affairs...
...combination as he had was being beaten continually by the junior university and freshman crews, Mr. Courtney saw that there must be something radically wrong. His repeated shifts did not better matters. It was evident that the men were dissatisfied and did not work well together, and that the affair had gone too far to be settled peacefully. Mr. Courtney said that while his move may cost Cornell the victory in the Harvard race, it is the only one that could prove wise in the long run. He was not prepared for recent developments and considers them unfortunate, but thinks...