Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sporadically, variously, but never so sweepingly as last week, censure has spattered the methods and conduct of U. S. college athletics. Last week's censure was a fat, dun-colored tract labeled "Bulletin 23," published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching after more than three years...
5) By tradesmen, locally patriotic, giving athletic bounties to local colleges, in one case, "out of impatience . . . with the meagre encouragement given to athletes at the local institution."
6) By " 'caring for'* a more or less definite number of athletes, somewhat less formally than by awarding athletic scholarships." (The number discovered at the following institutions varied from 25 to 50: Bucknell, Gettysburg, Muhlenberg, Oglethorpe, Pennsylvania State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia Wesleyan.)
The Methods. Not covertly were the investigations conducted. With willing cooperation from college authorities, the investigators quizzed undergraduates, teachers, athletic officials. They opened files, read countless letters from preparatory school stalwarts who wished to be paid for college competition. Only at Oglethorpe University, where permission to search records and interview...
Men. Director of the investigation was Carnegie staff member Howard James Savage, onetime English teacher (Harvard, Bryn Mawr), Encyclopedia Britannica contributor (U. S. Athletic Sports). Other field workers: John Terence McGovern, oldtime Cornell runner (1900), member of U. S. Olympic Commission (1921), Encyclopedia contributor (Track and Field Sports); Harold W...