Word: sanction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Committee should decide eventually to sanction boxing meets with other colleges, it will do so on second hand information. The question for us is not whether Yale and Princeton men have or have not the qualities needed to foster boxing as a sport, but whether our own material can stand the acid test...
First--It is ill-considered policy. Its official sanction will do damage to the reputation of Harvard and will tend to lessen enthusiastic contribution to the Endowment Fund. And for what good reason should Harvard enter the controversy on the merits of Mr. Kreisler--a controversy extending from Worcester to Louisville and points farther West? We are not called upon to take Mr. Kreisler's case before American public opinion. And if a violinist is needed, there are Elman, Haifetz, Jacques Thibaud, who served in the French army, and our own Albert Spalding, who served overseas in the army...