Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A radical change in the Harvard Interscholastic games which will make the affair one of the largest gatherings of schoolboy athletes in the country is to be undertaken this spring according to an announcement given out by the Athletic Association yesterday.
The Health Association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Dean Frank W. Nicolson of Wesleyan University, secretary) and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Louis I. Dublin, statistician) collated the vital history of 40,000 graduates of eight colleges from 1870 to 1905, of 5,000 athletes of ten colleges and 6...
Many an interpretation might be made from these figures. Probably the broadest is that the colleges are now requiring, stimulating or expecting their students to take physical exercise and build up healthy constitutions. Another factor is the tendency of athletes to overtrain, overstrain. "Athletic heart" is a frequent result, particularly...
Up to 1907, he had never sat in an automobile. That did not prevent him from becoming an automobile salesman. He earned $15,000 in commissions the first year. Then, in 1910. he went into the taxicab business with Walden W. Shaw. The Chicago Athletic Club wanted a private cab...
The Harvard plan is a compromise between the two. When completely carried out, it will naturally have a grave effect not only upon whatever clubs exist at Harvard but upon University athletics and all University extra-curriculum activities. A new inter-house athletic system and certainly a good amount of...