Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three minor sports, basketball, fencing, and wrestling, will combine their managerial competitions this year, under a plan never before attempted in the history of the Harvard Athletic Association...
...plan over the old one lie in the broad acquaintance it gives candidates with the three minor sport fields, and in the practical experience afforded in managing basketball, fencing, and wrestling before a choice of one sport is required. Candidates will be rated, as in all other Harvard managerial competitions, on scholarship, executive ability, industry, efficiency, reliability, and personality. Minor sports numerals and letters will be awarded to University and Freshman managers. These numerals will all be of the same type, in accordance with the recommendation of the Minor Sports Council last month. At that time red numerals...
...particularly unfortunate that this restriction on freedom works more hardship upon some men financially less comfortable than others. This is not only out of line with the Harvard custom which deprecates distinction by wealth, but is wholly antagonistic to the spirit of democracy which is presumed to be the essence of the House Plan...
...complicated for treatment here. At any rate the whole situation boils down to the fact that men will in effect be required to take a large majority of their meals in the Houses or lose money. This unavoidable element of compulsion is in itself contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and is bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference as something almost unique in American education...
With the announcement today the House Plan is for the first time put on a definite basis. Questions for a long time unformulated and floating about in the minds of Harvard men are for the first time answered. Some idea of the physical form which the Houses will take for the first time come to the public notice in the pictures released from University Hall...