Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hotel Somerset, Boston, this evening at 7 o'clock, a reunion dinner will be held for all members of the American Field Service who served in the war. This affair is being given under the auspices of the American Ambulance Field Drivers' Association an organization formed some time ago to keep former Field Service volunteers together...
Tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, the 18th annual joint concert of the University and Yale Musical Clubs will take place at Jordan Hall. This performance will mark the resumption of the annual affair, which has been postponed for the last two years on account...
...preparation now being made for various graduation festivities calls to mind the varied history of these exercises. The first Commencement was held in 1642, and the occasion shortly became an event of great moment. That the affair was properly solemn and sober may be judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled...
...university officials have decided to allow the exercises to be held, but have ordered, the campus closed to the public and will make the "tapping" a purely Yale family affair. Not even the underclassmen will be supposed to be present...
...either of the other two spring athletics. Although the individual athletes have developed steadily throughout the season, there has been but little advance made in arousing that element most necessary to success in all sports, and so difficult to attain in the case of track: team spirit. In this affair of morale, the training table is fully as vital as to crew or baseball...