Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, high school experience helps, But it's within anyone's reach to make the first novice boat one year and be on the varsity the next. As long as the athlete is physiologically suited for rowing, she just has to be excited by the sport and willing to do the work...
...also the main message of the letter sent out to the male athletes. And to make crew even more appealing, the letter assures that "...work out times are held strictly under sixty minutes in the fall and no more than ninety minutes in the spring," and that "No sport at Harvard demands so little daily time...
Bouldering is a variety of rockclimbing, usually done on local architecture. A "dry-weather sport," bouldering can be done almost anywhere--and is! At Brown, the most frequent targets of bouldering are campus buildings, a large percentage of which have already been conquered...
...midnight marauders say that the abundance of chalk-stained walls around campus attests to the fact that the sport has caught on and happens "all over, all the time." (Boulderers use chalk, which dries the fingertips, to ease their aerial ascent...
Those who do it, whether they climb three feet or three hundred feet off the ground, say the new 'sport' is challenging, fun and "an end in itself...