Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known at the University. This is undoubtedly due to a great many causes but the most important one, I believe, is the lack of interest which is shown by the undergraduates. Less enthusiasm and spirit of competition is being shown on the baseball diamond than in any other major sport...
...changed. Too many men are going down to Soldiers Field to while away the spring afternoons and not to put all they have got into building up a better Harvard ball team. Also, there are about half the men down there that ought to be supporting the sport in a college of this size. Too many potential ball players are fooling around with crew and minor sports at which they can never succeed and others are spending the spring in doing nothing at all. Baseball players can be developed and all we ask for is a bunch...
...There are plenty of openings for places on the 1926 ball team and now is the time to get in shape for the season. I would like to see every man who is not an absolute necessity to another spring sport come out and help us put Harvard baseball back...
There can be no other sane reaction than unqualified approval of the joint agreement of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton Athletic Committees to increase their athletic revenues by raising the price of football tickets. Most significant of the new attitude toward sport is the avowed intention to apply the resultant increase in funds "solely to maintenance and development of general athletic facilities and not to increasing the budgets of intercollegiate athletic teams." The idea of "athletics for all" has recently come noticeably to the fore in theory; here is a definite step toward putting this theory into practice...
...unheralded appointment of William J. Bingham '26 as Director of Athletics admirably rounds out the promise of the most auspicious development of recent years in Harvard sport policy. At the announcement of the new position the hope was expressed in this column and elsewhere that Mr. Bingham would be its first incumbent. Confirmation of this hope appreciably heightens expectations of the benefits to be derived from this new liaison between faculty and athletics...