Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular meet can be held, but if the interest of the Freshmen is great enough the department will endeavor to hold a competition of some sort in the Big Tree Pool. Even if no matches are held, members of the class of 1928 may still elect swimming as their sport during the winter...
...call for candidates for the University and Freshman wrestling teams made by Coach W. E. Lewis officially opens the season for the sport in the present school year. All candidates will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the wrestling room in Hemenway Gymnasium. Coach Lewis and Captain F. B. Hayne '26 will speak to the men who wish to try out for the teams...
...beginning of the sixteenth century football had attracted so much, public attention as to be the subject of scathing criticism and violent denunciation. In 1531 Sir Thomas Elyot in his "Boke named the Governour" defined the sport as follows...
...matter of decisions, and that grumble as they may, it is not something altogether new and baffling to them; nor possibly, is it the first time they have damned a judge. In fact, the damning may be move a matter of habit than of irritation. In my own sport, if every judge that I have heard condemned to the bonfire here in America had gone his way then and there, there would be about three competent fencers left in America-and those merely because they have always been too canny to act as judges! No; rancor over a judicial decision...
...rivalry is a splendid idea, and if firmer friendships and better understandings spring up, well and good. But to say that the Games are promoted chiefly for the purpose of cementing friendship is to mistake effect for cause, and put the cart before the horse. The Games are for sport, not for diplomacy. But because they were not so considered, when they failed to be what they were not, and never intended to be, that failure was doubly emphasized in the eyes of those who had persisted in misunderstanding them. In other words, the Games were considered in a false...