Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The son of a Harvard graduate who was practicing medicine in Milton, he entered the College in 1929 as the nation plunged into the Great Depression. In four years, he performed amazing athletic and scholastic feats, winning All-America and Phi Beta Kappa honors. When he graduated in 1932, he...
Sissy Stigma. Nijinsky, though, might have had a good chance. While the U.S. is developing more female dancers than it can productively use, there is still a dearth of male talent. Unlike Denmark, where women curtsy in the street when a ranking male dancer passes by, or Russia, where Bolshoi...
The fact is that there are hardly any amateurs left, at least by Olympic standards-which rule out even athletic scholarships (a ban that is obviously ignored) and prohibit any financial remuneration whatsoever from athletic ability. The trouble with that philosophy is that it ignores the labor and expense necessary...
At first, Harvard wasn't too enthusiastic. Harvard track had been formally organized since 1874, when the Harvard Athletic Association was created. But in 1876 there was little interest in track, and Harvard's few entrants in the first IC4A meet did miserably. Princeton won.
This must be the decisive issue. In recent years world-wide attention has focused on the unofficial East-West struggle for Olympic metal. It is right that a nation should glory in its individual citizens' athletic achievements. But it is wrong that the nations should use the athletes themselves as...