Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting at the H. A. A. at 2.30 o'clock, open to all Sophomores in good standing, will start the fall managerial competition. This is the shortest major sport competition in college, as it lasts only five weeks. Freshman experience is unnecessary; and the winners become manager and associate manager of crew...
Freshmen selecting crew as their fall sport will meet in Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock tonight where they will be addressed by the same speakers as at the University crew gathering. This sport is one of the most popular of fall activities necessary to fill the physical training requirements and it is hoped that as large a number of shells will be on the Charles River this year as in past seasons...
...decision recently announced by executives of the various major league baseball clubs to shorten the schedule in future years is but the most recent of the many indications that have accumulated to mark a decline in certain fields of professional sport. New York sport pages and individual columnists alike reflect the trend of the times with a tendency toward an Increasing emphasis upon amateur sports, upon tennis and golf and polo, that must be of some significance to the public at large, but of even more consequence to the collegiate world in which the best of amateur sport in certain...
...certain almost obvious axioms in the study of American competitive sport are to be accepted, collegiate circles will not be the last to foresee the possibility of a future invasion of professionalism upon fields that have thus far been represented mainly by the amateur. It was not such a far cry to the professional conquest of hockey, while the present invasion of football, although not yet a conquest by any means, is an established fact. Professionalism steps in where angels fear to tread as is evidenced by recent attempts to commercialize even the most commonplace dance marathon, let alone...
Under such circumstances the college can do little at present but assume an attitude of watchful waiting, and a strict policy that will insure that at least those principles that have thus far placed the freshness and energy of collegiate sport in the good favor of the sporting public may be preserved...