Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance to them. It was the habits they formed outside the classroom which would be of value to young graduates. He has then shown his own worst side, half sentimental, half debauched, as a guide to their future course. He has professionalized the boy's idealistic love of sport; he has encouraged the student in wanton extravagance in the organization and maintenance of fraternity houses...
...student movement in American is taken up with the demand for student autonomy in student matters. Undergraduates are quarreling with alumni over the management of teams. They are refusing the sentimental code of college sport handed down to them. They are defending the leisure day against the inroads made upon it by competing Faculty departments. They are going further just now in demanding some share in the control of the working day at the college. They are questioning not only the requirements of subjects, but the methods of teaching. The time is soon coming when innovations in the curriculum will...
Robert Winthrop '26 issued the following statement last night: "During the three years that Coach Stevens has been here, he has given rowing at Harvard a tremendous impetus by popularizing the sport among undergraduates. Realizing, however, that there was a lack of cooperation between the various crews, and a lack of unity and leadership in the coaching system, we felt that an immediate change was imperative. In Bert Haines I am sure the crew will have the utmost confidence. The new regime should carry on the best traditions of Harvard rowing...
...matches was the award of letters to T. E. Jansen Jr. '26, and A. R. Alien '26, who have been members of the second team for two years, and who won their letters through their playing against Yale Saturday in the University doubles. The whole team will receive minor sport 'H's as a result of its victory over the Blue, and its almost perfect record...
Arrived at this theory and in the hope of stimulating interest in aviation as a sport, the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation has offered a prize of $1,000 to the first U. S. boy or girl who successfully pilots a plane across the continent from San Francisco to Boston. The promoters point out that famed War aces had but barely emerged from puberty when daily zooming through riotous air-fusillades...