Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speedy action has resulted in the definite scheduling of the dance. Considerable wrangling developed over the choice of December 15 as the date, and the final settlement was viewed as unsatisfactory by some because it competes with a Radcliffe formal...
Tommy Tennant, quarterback and acting captain of the '45 eleven, got up to say that the only difference between formal and informal football is that in formal football you get a steak for a black...
...Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale signed an expanded version of an old Harvard-Princeton-Yale agreement-no "athletic scholarships," no first-year men or scholastic delinquents on varsity teams, no post-season games-in short, strictly antiseptic amateur football. Members are not required to play each other, and no formal championship will be at stake. Far from forming a league comparable to the Big Ten, the ivy-covered institutions were merely seeking to "maintain the value of the game while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life...
...that has been trailing them all season. Uncertain as to their own potentialities, they will face a Yale team that has been paraded up and down the sports pages of the East. Perhaps the Crimson can take heart from the 10 to 3 victory of 1919, first year of formal football for Harvard after a three-year lapse during the last...
...Formal by preference" and "informal by necessity" is the way the Yale Dance Committee describes the dance this Saturday. Although a formal affair has been planned, Harvard commuters and their dates will be admitted in semi-formal or street wear, and corsages are not permitted...