Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 200 years ago, Cambridge and Oxford originated the distinctions between major and minor sports. The two universities awarded "blues" in nine sports and "half blues" in seventeen others. This distinction, with slight variations, carried over to America during the early decade of the 20th century. In the then theoretical Ivy League, major and minor sports were clearly distinguished by the size and color of letter award...
...Princeton, the distinction was abolished in 1949. Under the Tiger plan letters are awarded on the basis of a complicated gradation system, where an average football player will win a better grade letter than an average squash player. In effect, the Princeton system has abolished major and minor sports...
...this happens casually, pleasantly, without a crack in the customary Marquand mood. Willis Wayde's minor monstrosities, which outweigh his major villainies, sneak up on the unsuspecting reader, as they sneak up on Willis' unsuspecting wife-a professor's charming daughter named Sylvia. Willis turns out to be the kind of man who pops out of bed of a morning and drops to the floor to do 20 pushups, religiously devotes 15 minutes a day to the Five-Foot Shelf of Harvard Classics, and methodically sprinkles wheat germ in his orange juice. On their honeymoon...
...This is a minor sport. You've got to love it to compete. I've got boys here who are too short for basketball, too slow for hockey, and a bit too muscular for swimming. They're as agile, enthusiastic, and willing to train as any man on a major team. And they work as hard, but you'd never know it for the official recognition they...
...support his point shout wrestling as a minor sport, Pickett gives Princeton and Pennsylvania as examples of colleges which have abolished the distinction between major and minor sports...