Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A number of years ago this system of awarding the small minor H to those teams that defeated Yale and also won three quarters of their scheduled contests was adopted. At the time this was an intelligent forward step but with the change in the attitude of undergraduates which has...
The Athletic Association has shown that it realized this change in its new method of choosing coaches. Where it has been possible there has been a definite attempt in the past year to appoint young coaches who make up for a possible lack of technical knowledge with an increase in...
To be in keeping with such a definite policy and with the gradual increase in equipment of minor sports some revision in the status of awards towards the adoption of a uniform not dependent on the season's scores should be forthcoming at the June meeting of the Athletic Committee...
It is dangerous to say that the Harvard plan is an attempt to be British, an attempt to ape the Oxford-Cambridge program of vigorous intramural sports and one annual inter-varsity meet in each sport. It is dangerous because it may not be true. And if Harvard were accused...
But whether the Harvard plan is consciously British or not, the process of acclimating it to American custom and even to New England hauteur is not without anticipation of untold difficulty. In the matter of the British plan there was no tradition to buck. Oxford and Cambridge have concentrated their...