Word: forms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates know the significance of the various devices connected with caps and gowns. Although the wearing of this form of dress is supposed to be a very old tradition it was not introduced into the University until 1893 when it was adopted from the English universities. There it has been in vogue since the twelfth century...
Tomorrow afternoon at 2.15 o'clock a parade will form in front of University Hall to march down to Soldiers Field for the Dartmouth baseball game. Kanrich's twelve-piece brass band has been procured to lead the procession to the ball field. All members of the University are urged to take part in the demonstration, which will be the first organized support of a University athletic team since the football season two years...
...LaFarge writes "To Frederic Schenck". The value of the poem is in the feeling it expresses toward its subject; a value marred only by the frequent lapses in word or phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing...
...Russell, who pitched for the first nine innings, was touched for nine safeties, and was replaced by J. R. Meenan, who in turn gave way to W. B. Rice in the eleventh. The Freshmen were far below their usual batting form, getting only five hits in twelve innings...
...track events, much of Yale's strength depends on the physical condition of Harvey Reed, the mile runner, and Walter Schleiter, the sprinter, both of whom have been slightly out of form this season. Reed, who returned from military service only a month ago, was unable to take part in the Penn. Relay Carnival, and Johnny Mack, the Eli coach, fears that he will not regain sufficient physical form this year to be counted on as a point winner. During his freshman year, Reed, who came to Yale from Mercersberg as a preparatory school record breaker, reeled off a mile...