Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eliminate, but to provide as many coaches as are needed to help every undergraduate who wants to play. Exercise is a big motive and last year the Harvard Athletic Association employed forty-four paid coaches at a total cost of $75,000 to supervise fourteen different kinds of sport, for which thirty-nine different schedules were made with teams from other colleges or schools...
...think the part will be great fun," said the pretty young dancer, commenting to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The play is one of the most interesting I have ever seen and from the standpoint of the cast as well as that of the audience, it should be great sport. My, you don't know what telephoning I had to do last night to make arrangements for staying over. Of course, I was delighted at the offer to be in the cast...
Football, baseball, and rowing succumb alike to the hordes that swarm the links and courts. Tennis is revealed to be the favorite sport of 23 per cent of the class, topping by a comfortable margin football, which is favored by only 11 per cent. Football is also superseded in popularity by golf, which, favored by 12 per cent, triumphs by the narrow margin of one point...
...most surprising revelations is the large number of Seniors who pronounce swimming to be their favorite sport. Nine per cent of the class declared for swimming. This figure, ranking swimming as fourth, is greater than baseball, track, rowing, basketball, or squash. Trailing swimming by one per cent, squash holds fifth place, closely followed by baseball with seven per cent, track six, and rowing four...
What then? Come, be a sport...