Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the whole Council a recommendation to the Athletic Committee was passed after a somewhat long and heated discussion asking that hockey be made a major sport. The Athletic Committee carried out the suggestion...
...Said a reporter to Franklin Roosevelt the day after the broadcast: "We thought it was Major Bowes." The President replied that someone else had asked him if it was Mark Sullivan...
Thus far the civil war in Spain has been no major problem to the Red Cross, for the reason that both Leftists & Rightists have so many well-organized, passionate, money-collecting friends. U. S. citizens have donated just $1,054 to their Red Cross specifically for Spain. The International Red Cross has received $57,000 from the American Red Cross for Spanish succor, dispassionately divided between Rightists & Leftists. The American Red Cross spent $41,000 repatriating U. S. citizens caught in Spain by the war and unable to escape by their own efforts. Some of the very ablest mercy work...
...spring trips, the one most justified is that of the major sport baseball, regardless of the number of games washed out; and the lacrosse tour also is undoubtedly a help to the team. Whether or not the expense of this extra training is fair in view of the financial difficulties of he other minor sports is another question. No excuse can be found for the money spent on the tennis junket, however, for year in and year out a large percentage of the matches have to be cancelled. It would be best to drop this trip altogether and sink...
Almost single-handedly, he has caused an interest in Harvard swimming that swept it into the major sport class without a dissenting vote. Despite illness which would have kept another man out, he still insisted on swimming in the recent N. A. A. U. meet in order that part of the expenses awarded him as defending champion could be used to help defray his teammates' expenses. All in all, he has been a leader, both physically and morally, who has gained the wholehearted respect, admiration, and support not only of his teammates but also of every one with whom...