Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Mountains with nearly perfect safety, and with the maximum of pleasure, ease, and comfort Cui bono? "For why?" What is the charm, or spell what attraction have they found in this work to satisfy the craving of a normal present day man for an adequate outside interest, sport, or hobby, and make them dream these trails throughout the year and spend their vacations on them in summer...
...very little idea of what he would be able to do. He got a job tracing in pen-and-ink on silver-prints of photographs. Then he thought up jokes, illustrated them, sold them to a news syndicate for one dollar a piece. He got some orders for sport cartoons in Chicago papers and worked his way onto the staff of the Chicago American, and later of the Tribune. He illustrated the Sunday "feature" pages, made borders, designed "layouts." In his spare time he studied. In 1915 Editor Ray Long of the Red Book gave him a manuscript to illustrate...
This time of the year finds the usual post season football dope in the sport columns and overflowing onto the editorial page in the form of comment. One, is offered tables showing the relative strength of different schools as Illustrated by record of their season's gains and losses. All-star elevens are passed in review. Statistics are compiled to show us just what football costs the public and profit and loss statements of the larger institutions are published. And ever present is the inevitable discussion as to the proper amount of emphasis to be placed on college sports...
...commercial value of a football team in intercollegiate competition to the college or university which it represents is brought home in emphatic manner. The annual report of the Yale Athletic Association States that "it will be noted that with one or two minor exceptions football is the only sport which developed a profit to the Athletic Association...
...have already been formed. This is "athletics for all" in earnest. It further becomes apparent that the less formality in organization of teams the more extensive and beneficial are the results of the plan. Such a conclusion is an interesting commentary on the innate desire for participation in competitive sport, heretofore developed in those thousands of undergraduates whose athletic development consisted in cheering from the sidelines, a desire which only needed a little encouragement and careful avoidance of too much formality and professionalization to bear fruit in active, healthy exercise...