Word: prep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clark Hodder '25 at center, W. M. Austin '25 at left wing, and J. L. Newell '26 at goal are the veterans listed to start. Two former prep school captains are slated to play their first game for the Crimson. They are E. M. Bailey '27 from Middlesex at right wing, and W. P. Ellison '27 from Andover at right defense. L. O. Pratt '26, a member of the first squad last year, will start at left defense...
Houston Richards, Bernard Nedell, and Roy Elkins play the chief masculine parts quite satisfactorily, al hough the two latter in playing the parts of elderly men fail to hide their own youth, and give somewhat the impression of a prep school performance of "Grumpy...
...spindle-legged" and "hollow-chested" American youth who at this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a rule, from the wealthier prep school element, since high school men being more studious have less time for joy riding. It is in the prep schools that athletics are compulsory and it is from there that most of Harvard's great athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school man who now sports...
...most prep schools, unhappily, there is too little sport for sport's sake. A man goes out for a team either because it is an honor to make the team, or a disgrace not to make it. If athletic games are not for sport, but only to win, we might as well burn up every football and baseball in the country. Why not substitute wood chopping or coal shovelling, which would develop the muscles just as well as athletics and perform useful service in addition? If athletics are not for the sake of sport, they are no better than...
...proper way nowadays. There is too much of this 'sport for the sport's sake stuff.' That is a fundamentally twisted idea. Boys should be taught to play to win, not in any desperate unprincipled way, but by means of determination and fight. The boys who at prep school are not good enough to make the first squad are relegated to a club team where they play for the pleasure of the game. Thats all bosh! Let them get hurt a bit! It will do them lots of good...