Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life in the eastern colleges is one long puzzle to students in the western part of these United States. Supposedly the acme of collegiate sedateness, formality, and decorum, the inmates of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and the others break out every so often in a burst of wildness that makes the diversions of the "rougher" Pacific Coast universities appear pale by comparison...
...reputation has long been evident. Still they have occurred with regularity. Afterwards there was always the lesson, then the exhortation; but to the amazement of most upperclassmen, another riot would follow. In recognizing the seriousness of the situation and in making an appeal to every student's sense of decorum the student. Council has given official force to a feeling which has been growing steadily. The threat of drastic and final action by the University office is severe, but just and necessary...
When the whistle blows today local sympathy will be somewhat unbalanced, but the team that has crossed a continent will know that its support, though absent, is just as strong. And although decorum insists that hosts be impartial, it is only natural that Harvard should not be indifferent to the fortunes of the Green...
...theory, it goes without saying that the College naturally can tolerate no one but a gentleman. In theory, then, each individual is obligated to the extent of maintaining a gentlemanly decorum at all times. All that in theory...
...peak of the tercentenary celebration of the settlement of Boston was marked by the annual meeting of the American Legion. Doubtless the founders, could, they have looked down on their city during that week, would have felt honored. The Legion has not been distinguished for the decorum and sobriety of its conventions, but its excesses in Boston seem to have passed the bounds of previous meetings except that at Kansas City...