Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked there, as tutor in Greek, Professor of English, Dean of the College, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For 17 years, he was Chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, taught sportsmanship, waged war on the educated muckers who once kept his college athletics in derision. "Sport for sport's sake," was his slogan. He pitied trembling umpires, decried inanely garrulous big men, reformed bullying coaches, strive to bring honor back to amateur Baseball...
...Here we have an American college sport that as yet has no counterpart in the professional world. It is played between teams of young men of similar age and type. Its science is the cumulative experience of years of experiments. It can be coached by its own players or recently graduated players, as we found out at Yale years ago, just as well as by resident specialists if the continuity of its technique is preserved...
...rule on the eligibility of transfer students in the university, which has come up for so much discussion, was considered by the committee. It was voted to ratify the proposed amendment of the rule so as to include all men who have played in the sport concerned in another college, whether they entered Harvard, Yale, or Princeton by examination or by credits earned at the other colleges. It was also voted under this rule, for purposes of the eligibility requirement, to consider track and cross-country running as the same sport...
With both the Harvard and Yale baseball squads engaged in indoor practice, and with outdoor practice dependent only on the weather, the spring sport is getting well under way. The Crimson squad has already been divided, with separate times for practice for each of the two squads. The 1928 ball-players will organize tomorrow and their first practice is scheduled for next Monday...
...another quite as stirring. To the wearers of the Crimson go the honorable laurels of a brave defeat; to the warriors in Blue the sincere congratulations which any true sportsman must extend to the victors of a hard-fought fray. Marking as it did Yale's tenth consecutive major sport victory over Harvard, the men of New Haven may well be proud of last night's achievement and of the athletes who have made possible such a record...