Word: sport
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...animals and artists. "It has never seemed a useful distinction to me to divide the undergraduate body into athletes and non-athletes, as though these were discrete branches of the human species," according to David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House. "Whether or not a man plays a varsity sport has little to do with his intellectual abilities and interests or his qualities as a social being...
...third type of athlete at Harvard never dies. He is the Charlie Ravenel or the Mark Mullin, who just keeps going ahead in athletics with an interminable drive, determination, and winning enthusiasm for his sport all the way through school. To these people, athletics is a way of life whole life has centered around athletics," Ravenel said recently. everything to sports." He is Class Marshal this year, has a $5,000 scholarship from Glass Company to travel around the world, has been named co-recipient of the Bingham Award for this year has been admitted into Harvard School. That...
...Class indicated that it was to be big in lacrosse in the future. The '62 trio of Watts, Pete Sieglaff, and Woody Spruance dominated varsity lacrosse for three years. On the hockey rink the Class was one of the best groups at the College in the history of the sport. With Jim Dwinell, Bob Bland, Bill Beckett, Dave Morse, Dave Grannis, Chris Norris, Dean Alpine, and Tom Heintzman, its record as freshman was 18-3. The soph-dominated varsity in 1959-60 ended 17-7-1 and second in the Ivy League; in 1960-61, the Junior-dominated team...
...football, Lowell inveighed against a "trained band of gladiators" advocated instead a squad drawn form the top of a large group of student players. Reflecting a national concern over football deaths that caused President Roosevelt's threat to ban the sport if it weren't "cleaned up," Lowell noted that new safety rules, in addition to the recent legalization of the forward pass, were being considered...
...Menlo Park, Calif., a staff scientist for the Lockheed Aircraft Co., has been square dancing two or three times a week for the past ten years. "It's like a show in which everybody can participate," he says. "And it's a good couple thing-a sport in which the man doesn't necessarily dominate. At the same time, it's a head game-it takes more skill than most people know...