Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Along with Mr. Bingham's policy of "athletics for all" has gone an attempt to increase the emphasis on having the men play for the inherent pleasure in playing a game well and make the desire to win not a paramount consideration in Harvard athletics. This idea has been applied especially in choosing coaches, notably in lacrosse and soccer, where young graduates have supplanted middle aged experts. Surely this policy could be furthered considerably in football "giving the game back to the players" as it often has been expressed...
...athletic conference made up of New England colleges, the whole matter could be discussed thoroughly and either approved or rejected within a much shorter comparative time. That such a conference does not exist today seems ridiculous, but it does not, and as a result if Mr. Bingham decided to attempt to carry out his plan he will be forced to convince each individual college that it deserves consideration...
...basis of watching the two men play it is this writer's opinion that Kozeluh could beat the Frenchman. He doesn't attempt to blast his opponents off the court and therefore would fall no easy victim to the infallibility style which Cochet plays so faultlessly. His ground and back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than...
...good play or not. What I should like is the liberty to make up my mind for myself. Whether I like it or not, I am prepared to promise, that I will not seek to force my opinion on anyone else. What I resent is the attempt of a handful of officials to dictate the tastes and artistic judgment of the whole community...
Last May the team closed its most active season in years by journeying to Cedarhurst, Long Island, in an attempt to avenge a one bird defeat inflicted by Yale in the Autumn, an attempt which proved fruitless due to the failure of Yale to gather a full team...