Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time in advance is not altogether warranted. In citing past defeats and emphasizing the necessity of planning a campaign a long way ahead Tilden descends to the level of so many sports where winning is the primary object and a pleasant hour or so of recreation a minor detail. The champion is inconsistent in this in that once on the court he does decidedly play for the joy of the game. After all it would be no great misfortune if, as Tilden intimates, the Cup were soon to change hauds. In fact most people agree that it would...
...direct contrast to this is the situation at most other colleges, even those whom Harvard men are wont to believe most like their own University. Yale and, even more clearly Princeton and Dartmouth, regard minor sports from a point of view that is entirely foreign to the orthodox Harvard undergraduate; the latest news from New Haven only serves once more to emphasize the popularity of minor sports in other centers As a result of all this, these other colleges are prominent in those very sports, which, to an extreme devotee of athletic success, have long been a reproach...
...would be interesting to speculate on the basic reason for this "Harvard indifference' to minor sports. Apparently it is not superficial, for no amount of propaganda and cajolery-- newspaper articles and Crimson editorials has been able to overcome it. And so, whatever the reason for the indifference may be and whether or not it can be rectified in the long run, it is time to face the immediate fact and make the best...
After all, the greatest, value of the minor sports is to furnish a means of securing that "athletics for all" of which we have of late heard so much. Except in the case of squash, this end is plainly not being attained to as great an extent as possible, and attempts to attain it by forcible feeding have not been successful...
...answer to the problem is perhaps simpler than it would appear. Hitherto every effort has been made to arouse enthusiasm for minor sports carefully organized on the varsity team basis. These efforts have met with failure. Squash, on the other hand, per force largely an informal sport and for the great majority of participants not organized on any basis of a team and regular attendance, has become more and more popular. Apparently the Harvard undergraduate is interested in a minor sport provided it is not over-organized. It might prove wise and profitable, carrying out this idea in other minor...