Word: less
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should recommend that the Council take every sport individually, study it, consult captains, players, coaches, Bingham, Samborski, and House secretaries until they know what they are talking about, and then, resisting the impulse to generalize, confine themselves to specific recommendations for each sport. I believe more progress and less furor would follow. John M. Barnaby, Coach Tennis and Squash...
...nation-wide figures are disheartening. In 1938 two and a half million youths failed to attend school. Even more serious is the fact that of seventy million adults, no less than sixty-four million had never finished high school. Enlightened America is found to be lacking schools and money and well-trained teachers. In 1935 forty-two thousand schools had not the funds to complete their year...
...might appear from this plan that minor sports coaches would have nothing to keep them at Harvard. It has already been mentioned that such coaches will have more work to do. This work will be dealing with a far larger body of men than heretofore and hence will be less directly influential. But if coaches can see the "sport for sport's sake" ideal of the plan, they will fit into their new niches in much the same manner, at least in the individual sports, as club professionals. Their tenure will be secure, and their indirect influence vastly greater than...
...many of them, whether they may be able to be allied with Dudley, is a question at the present writing. The powers that be in the athletic world here, nevertheless, must fit these men into the competitive scheme of things. Financially, this task will be made very much less difficult by the Committee's plan...
...have looked beyond an ocean in the search for a more ideal athletic establishment, and their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...