Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Because of the declaration of war the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has decided to give up all formal Intercollegiate contests until further notice." L. B. R. BRIGGS '75, Chairman...
...quarter past three this morning, less than 15 minutes after the passage of the war resolution by the House, Dean Briggs, acting with the power intrusted to him on March 26 by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, issued the accompanying statement calling off all formal athletics at the University. The Dean has recently conferred with Professor Conwin of Yale and Dean McClenahan, of Princeton, who were acting in a similar capacity for their respective universities, and a joint decision to abolish intercollegiate athletics when war should be declared was reached. It is understood that they have already...
...Under present conditions it is almost or quite impossible to carry out schedules of games planned in times of peace. Our teams are broken up; the interest of our athletes is rightly transferred to other things than athletics; and there is here, as elsewhere, a general feeling that formal and important intercollegiate contests would be out of place at such a time as this. It is with great regret that we cancel our games. I have little doubt that your experience and your wishes are much like ours...
...Graduate Advisory Track Committee voted last night to cancel the track schedule immediately upon the declaration of war. But although all formal meets with other colleges will be abandoned as soon as war is declared, informal and intramural competitions will be encouraged so long as such meets will not interfere with military preparation. This means that the University will not, in case of war, take part in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival scheduled for the latter part of this month, and that there will be no dual meets with Cornell or Yale...
...than 200 years, from 1700 on, there seem to have been about 150 cases, up to the present war, in which states have resorted to hostilities. Some of these instances were in the nature of civil wars. In the entire list of wars, however, there are less than 15 formal declarations, and less than one-half of these were made prior to the outbreak of hostilities. It is only since the Hague Conference of 1907 that a declaration prior to hostilities has been regarded as essential. The Congress of the United States even in 1898, in declaring war against Spain...