Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Post-war collegiate life returns to Cambridge with a vengeance today, when the Varsity football team opens its first formal gridiron schedule since 1942 against a University of Connecticut squad which has won 20 of its last 24 contests. Kickoff time is 2:30 o'clock and an estimated gathering of 25,000 will watch the action...
...Business School field this afternoon at 4 o'clock against a Worcester Polytechnic Institute squad which is something of an unknown quantify. After only a week of practice Coach Mac MacDonald feels he already has a better than average team worked up to open Crimson's first post-war formal soccer season...
John Harvard, veteran, has reason to wonder at the palace on the Charles these days. Prewar registration days were a far cry from the maddening crowd that thundered through Memorial Hall on the first leg of their pursuit of a formal education. Course attendance ballooned to new levels as cozy discussion courses became monstrous lecture courses. House dining halls continued to look like Army mess halls. Laundry salesmen and cleaning contractors, once frenetic in their hunt for prospects, assumed an unbecoming coyness. As for getting books, John found texts unobtainable and the lines interminable. In fact, John found lines everywhere...
...first 1946-47 appeal to the Administration on behalf of the student body, the Student Council made a formal request yesterday to Roy V. Perry, University Bursar, to grant a mass extension on all non-veterans' term bills. The bills, which were included in registration envelopes Thursday, Friday, and Monday, are due today, thus giving old students only two days to produce funds for them...
Although his original venture into basketball here was on an informal basis, some of the glory of the first formal postwar team was conferred upon Stahl in his elevation to head coach of the Cantabrigian quintet...