Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lopez, and while still a child he became primus of the Habana Chess Club. Only the insistence of a medical man induced him, at the age of eight, to take a holiday and go to school. He went through college, where he interested himself in science, history, art, music, sport. Then he began to play chess again, and the story of his life is the graph of a series of brilliant moves from the little square of one country to the little square of another. After winning 99 tournament games, he wrote a book, My Chess Career, which contains many...
...large a part in the college life and in the public eye. These big final games partake to a great extent of the spectacles of ancient Rome, and it is no part of the business of a college to furnish impressive and large spectacles for sport fans...
Protest against "overemphasis", upon football, ancient and often as unreasonable as the malady itself, has taken a new turn which may well prove decisive. For now it is the undergraduate who leads our way--the Harvard Crimson and the Yale News concurring. What should be a sport has become an arduous grind, endured by most of the players only because college loyalty demands the sacrifice as no less a luminary of the gridiron than George Owen declared of late in the Independent. What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged...
...shortened. Instead of beginning with the fall term or before it, and continuing under a squad of coaches through daily prac tice games and weekly intervarsity matches, it is to be preceded by a "class championship" series. Training with the class team for contests of genuine sport will serve at once to put old varsity players in condition and to develop new material. Only when the class championship has been decided will the varsity squad assemble. During the weeks remaining, there will be a few intervarsity contests in preparation for the all-important finalmatch; but these will be so arranged...
...club aims to encourage undergraduates to take up flying as a sport or commercial aviation as a vocation and to increase interest in aeronautics...