Word: minority
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...written by men connected with them. In this part of the book there will also be pictures of all the principal teams, clubs, papers and other organizations accompanied by lists of membership and records. The back part of the book will contain athletic records and lists of membership of minor organizations...
...financial policy of the Athletic Committee must result in the serious crippling, if not in the complete extinction, of many of the so-called "minor" teams; for, with all the calls that are made on the undergraduate's purse, it will probably be found impossible to obtain an increase in subscriptions sufficient to offset the withdrawal of the financial support heretofore given them by the Committee. The crippling of these teams would be a great pity, for in a University the size of Harvard the four major sports cannot furnish a large enough field for a fair proportion...
...little slower on the improvements, and let the growth of diversified athletic interests keep pace with the growth of available playing grounds? Nearly everyone feels that now-a-days there is far too much concentration in university sport at the best, and surely any curtailing of the activities of minor teams is one step more in the direction of this concentration, whereas any increase in their activity means a spreading of the benefits of the athletic life of the University, and an increase in the number of men who can partake of them. JUNIOR...
...there any need for such drastic economy in the management of our athletic finances as would cut off from the four or five minor sports together so meagre a sum as twelve or fifteen hundred dollars a year? We have, to be sure, a debt of $70,000 on the Stadium to pay off, and many improvements to make on Soldiers Field. Undoubtedly if we wish to apply strict business principles to this case, the thing to do is to adopt at once the most stringent economy and thus pay the debt and make the improvements at the earliest possible...
...Schubert--Unfinished Symphony in B minor...