Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Athletics", which became public yesterday, contains illuminating information for those unfamiliar with the college scene, yet for those who have followed the evolution of intercollegiate football into the realm of big business, its findings are far from being startling. The yard-stick of evaluation when applied to the sport from a national aspect measures out a sickening tale, as the fact that a "pure" rating was given only twenty-eight colleges out of a possible one hundred and twelve attests. That this was stressed at the expense of a more vivid picturization of sectional and local conditions, however, enhances...
...report attempts the impossible in its striving for generalizations on football. Its attendant evils are largely endemic throughout the East, yet we are fully aware that the Middle and Far West have gone berserk over the sport. The futility of classifying Harvard and Princeton in the motley group of colleges and universities guilty of proselyting and commercialism is a case in point. It is regrettable that these two universities have been denied the first flush of exoneration that it was Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them...
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...Burlingame, Cal., Sport, police dog, having once been bumped by an automobile, found that by barking a sound like the local traffic signal, automobilists would stop and he could cross the street leisurely...
...Columbia University begins six-day celebration of its 175th anniversary. Sport...