Word: jousts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...struggle until after they meet again. These men, after hours of manoeuvring for positions, will move their planes to signify calling off the duel until some other time and both sides, with the honor of good sportsmen, accept the signal. This takes us back to the age of joust and tourney, to a time when death in battle was no less horrible than it is now, but when the battle itself seemed man's and not the devil's mode of fighting...
...manoeuver through the Bowl. From goal post to goal post we will dash while the artillerymen sit peacefully on their steeds and caissons chuckling inwardly. It is indeed a subtle witticism from the Yale point of view. Except to amuse them there can be no reason for this joust. Crowds there will be none for who will travel to New Haven to see a puny two thousand would-be soldiers, when they can go to Yaphank or Ayer and watch tens of thousands drill...