Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition of Polo as a minor sport, the awarding of the football H to eight Seniors who did not participate in the Yale game, and the appointment of G. E. Abbot '17 as chairman of the Baseball Advisory Committee, were announced yesterday by Major F. W. Moore '92, in a report of last Monday night's meeting of the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. This announcement follows the one made directly after the meeting of the newly elected Football Advisory Committee...
...Committee voted to recognize Polo as a minor sport on the recommendation of the Student Council. Action pertaining to the financial support of Polo was deferred until a later date...
...decision of the Committee as regards Polo will mean the definite establishment of a sport which has been in a precarious financial position. This fall the members of last year's championship team, all of whom returned to the University this year, voted to maintain Polo for Harvard at their own expense. The expense of equipment, ponies, and a playing field have been a heavy burden on the players, although it is believed by Captain C. F. Clark, coach of the Crimson four, that the game will amply support itself if stands are erected...
...seats for the football games. The truth is the exact opposite of this. The policy I have followed in this respect, as expressed in a written report to the Committee on Athletics last winter, has been and is to organize and promote play, particularly in the form of competitive sport, for all members of the University; to provide as rapidly as possible opportunities for everybody to take part in sports of all sorts; and to make these opportunities sufficiently attractive to induce as many members of the University as possible, whether candidates for intercollegiate teams or not to take advantage...
...readers of the News think, as they read, by pictures, a remarkable tableau rose in their minds: They saw the Dowager Queen in her last moments-a bejeweled crone lifting her glass for the last time in a toast, perhaps to the physicians who had tended her. . . . "Good old sport!" they murmured...