Word: formality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This contest will be fought as keenly as any formal game, even though the rewards of victory are slight. Those men who have been practising for a month have shown that team-play and spirit can be developed without the incentive of a definite rival to be beaten. Interest in the sport for itself has made the seven eager to practice. So, too, it welcomes the opportunity to meet the sailors. The debut of the informals in the Arena may lack the importance of a formal game, but not the rivalry...
After the scrimmage, Gross put the regular 1921 lineup through a final work-out, emphasizing team-play. Inasmuch as this is to be the first occasion the squad has played in formal competition, team-work will be an important factor...
...believe, also, that such public spectacles as our games with Yale and Princeton are unbecoming now, when the friends and comrades of the participants are at the front, or on their way to it, and in imminent danger of a soldier's death. Whether a modified and less formal kind of contest than we have had could escape the publicity which the newspapers are watchful in maintaining is at least a matter of doubt...
That the annual Junior Dance will be held this winter, but will not be as formal as those of previous years, was decided yesterday by a temporary Junior committee. Later a class committee will be appointed to set a definite date for the occasion and to make all arrangements...
...reception was given on November 6 at which the patronesses were Mrs. William G. Sharp, Mrs. James R. Barbour, Mrs. Robert W. Bliss, Mrs. Persifor F. Gibson, Mrs. James H. Hyde, Mrs. Lawrence Slade and Mrs. Edward Tuck. The reception marked the formal ceremonies of opening the Union, although it had been in working order since October...