Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increase of Competitive Sport...
...Athletic sports are to my mind an important, in fact a very important part of education. The C. I. E. rendered great service to the European students in popularizing the idea of University athletics, which in many countries were previously looked upon as unimportant. Through the work of the athletic commission University sports are rapidly being developed throughout the continent. During the past two years there were already international competitions in football, swimming, rowing and fencing between two or more national student sport associations, and the commission in Paris is now working on the organization of an Olympiad of Arts...
Last week it was announced from Cornell University that several new inventions in crew apparatus having to do with the oarlocks and seats, had been made which would be of importance in the future of the sport. Speculation has been current in all rowing circles as to the likely effect of these proposed innovations...
...last speaker of the meeting was Coach Farrell of the University track team. He urged football men who were not particularly interested in any spring sport to come out for track between now and the beginning of spring football practice. He said that track has a great deal to offer a football man in teaching him how to run, and how to manage his legs...
More than 50 men turned out yesterday afternoon at the formal opening of the lacrosse season, and the size of the experienced squad forecasts a banner season in this sport...