Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlikely that the Athletic Association expects very much from the committee it has appointed to sound out undergraduate opinion on the proposed award to all minor sport teams of a minor "H" without modifications. The H, A. A. knows that attempts to find undergraduate opinion at Harvard are generally fruitless, however well-meant they may be. It seems, therefore, that the appointment of the committee is only a device to gain time for more consideration of the proposal. The significance of the incident lies in this very move which indicates that the Association has accepted a suggestion as worthy...
...doubt the wisdom of the proposed step. The award of a minor letter without any strings attached to it would do more than remove a tangle of cumbersome formalities that now attend the recognition of many teams. It would go far toward placing all sports on the basis of parity which they deserve. The division of sports into "major" and "minor" is a remnant of the days when there attached to each game a certain individual glory that was saleable off the athletic field. Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity...
...minor change under an athletic endowment would be the probable abolishment of admission charges for undergraduates and alumni years ago, when the Harvard Stadium was first built, the students were promised free seats at all the games as soon as the debts were paid off. If this endowment should ever become a reality, Harvard would be able to keep her promise at last...
...whose afternoons must otherwise be dedicated to laboratory work. The example of Dartmouth goes to show that evening laboratory study is entirely practical and not beyond the range of possibility. Where apparently no insurmountable difficulty stands in the path of progress, it seems but reasonable to expect that minor details can and should be arranged to provide for the interests of no small number of students. A move to bring longer laboratory hours to Harvard will but increase the value of the material additions being made for the study of science...
...defense placed Mrs. Dennett on the stand. She was allowed to answer three or four minor questions, concerning the fact that she had written the pamphlet 15 years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...