Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...productions have been attracting consider-able attention and favorable comment outside the University. In Cambridge, however, students make up but a small part of its audiences. As home-made performances the Dramatic Club plays have to overcome the prejudice against unpaid good acting. In their present form they are amateur only in the fact that the club members stage, manage, and act the plays without compensation...
...contributes perhaps the most distinguished poem, "To a Young Girl." Mr. Putnam '18, with "Storm," and Mr. Cutler '16, with a translation from Catullus, add good things to the number. In spite of an imitative and derivative air about most of these productions, patent confessions of the amateur's willingness of spirit and lack of skill, there is much promise and considerable present fulfilment. It is somewhat surprising not to find the poets rhyming about matters more pressing than the woods in Aiken, S. C., or a cavalier's song, with the Great War so near us that...
...worked out by men with training and a broader view. On the other hand, in this age of democracy no man can become truly, educated who has not at least a live interest in political issues. Every man, and, a-fortiori, every college man, should be at least an amateur politician...
None of the deaths in 1915 occurred to members of big, well-trained college elevens. In most cases the players were on high school, amateur, or independent teams where there is little or no system of physical development...
...Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America will hold a meeting in New York City on December 27 of all the amateur sport governing bodies of the United States. This meeting will be held for the purpose of more clearly defining the status of Amateur and professional athletes in intercollegiate and other sports. It will be attended by delegates from all the recognized sports organizations of the country, including the Amateur Athletic Union, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Association of Amateur Oarsmen, American Amateur Hockey League, and many other similar bodies. There will be an open discussion of amateurism...