Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quite proper that football should be taken seriously. In the past it was often considered a sport, and it was played for fun in a slapdash unprofessional manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance...
Relatively small at the same time are the complaints against over-emphasis upon college baseball, because amateur baseball has been kept in proper relation to the other aspects of college life by the dwarfing presence of professional baseball. During the fall season, no such saving counter-attraction has existed. But at last professional football teams have begun to appear. And their growth should be encouraged rather than frowned upon. For only when football teams legitimately professional come to occupy the same space in the public prints and the same interest in the public mind as is now held by professional...
...young man of real talent and the proper physique, financial rewards as an actor come earlier than in most of the other professions, and later are limited, within reason, only by his talent and determination," Winthrop Ames '95, prominent New York producer, told a CRIMSON reporter recently...
...this agreement, Harvard, Yale and Princeton agree to submit to a committee composed of the chairmen of their athletic boards all debatable questions affecting their relations with one another, and through this agreement the three universities hope to improve conditions and to establish intercollegiate athletics more securely in the proper position as valuable elements in a wholesome college life...
...alumni and faculty of the University of Wisconsin, the mouth of a gift horse is not, as it is for the University's regents, a proper subject for squeamish scrutiny. Since the regents resolved never again to accept "gifts, donations or subsidies from any incorporated educational endowments or organizations of like character" (TIME, Aug. 17), the alumni and faculty have held meetings, condemned the resolution, prepared...