Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think an inquisition addressed to all your subscribers would be still more interesting? I for one regretted not being fortunate enough to come under the letter "D" and maybe more of your subscribers feel the same...
...distinction between minor sports I agree with you that a uniform minor insignia would be a great improvement, but let the requirements for obtaining it be higher than they are for the present minor sport letter...
Playing the game for the game's sake is a very worthy ideal, but competition is the spice of all sports and if something as ephemeral as a letter adds to the zest why seek to cast...
...been changed. Behind such shibboleths as "sport for sport's sake" and "athletics for all" stands a real change in values. Where every effort is bent toward an ideal of every man playing a game for its own sake, the meaning of the false distinction conferred by an athletic letter has vanished. There was a time when only the men who wore letters played; now nearly everyone plays, and while the letter may serve a purpose as a marker of outstanding ability in a game, there should be gradations of honors among the different sports...
...ideal must remain the award of a University letter indiscriminately to all members of all University teams. But the erasing of small lines drawn between one sport and another is the first step into an intermediary stage, after which there may come a more sweeping change...