Word: ball
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...importance as an auxiliary to war. It is far better to develop the boys "back home" for future service than to permit the quality of games to retrograde out of respect for the men who have gone to the front. The youthful tennis player or the freshman or sophomore ball player of today is the soldier of tomorrow. --Boston Transcript...
Princeton has a squad of 50 ball players now practising regularly in the gymnasium. According to the Daily Princetonian, everything points to a successful season, although few men with experience on a university squad are back in college...
...order to meet the demands of the coal situation, the advisory council of the Dartmouth Outing Club has decided to hold a greatly restricted Winter Carnival instead of the more elaborate affair planned previously. All indoor social events, with the exception of the Carnival Ball, have been eliminated, and this feature will be run in the most unpretentious manner possible. Carnival activities will start one day later, and practically the entire week-end will be given over to outdoor sports...
Falling under the ban are the customary supper-dance, which usually opened the week, the concert by the musical clubs, which closed it, the Dramatic Association performance, as well as fraternity dances. The one affair remaining, the Carnival Ball, will be greatly diminished in importance in comparison to the outdoor events...
...followed by the dramatic club production. In former years a farce has always been played, but this year's show will be an original musical comedy, with book and lyrics both composed by undergraduates. The following evening is given over to the biggest affair of the week, the Carnival Ball, in the Alumni Gymnasium. As the closing entertainment, there will be a basketball game between Cornell and Dartmouth. At the same time, the Musical Clubs will give a concert in Webster Hall...