Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most prep schools, unhappily, there is too little sport for sport's sake. A man goes out for a team either because it is an honor to make the team, or a disgrace not to make it. If athletic games are not for sport, but only to win, we might as well burn up every football and baseball in the country. Why not substitute wood chopping or coal shovelling, which would develop the muscles just as well as athletics and perform useful service in addition? If athletics are not for the sake of sport, they are no better than...
...Preparatory schools are not encouraging athletics in the proper way nowadays. There is too much of this 'sport for the sport's sake stuff.' That is a fundamentally twisted idea. Boys should be taught to play to win, not in any desperate unprincipled way, but by means of determination and fight. The boys who at prep school are not good enough to make the first squad are relegated to a club team where they play for the pleasure of the game. Thats all bosh! Let them get hurt a bit! It will do them lots of good...
Trapshooting has not yet been recognized as a minor sport, although there have been spasmodic efforts to secure such recognition. Therefore members of the club pay their own travelling and practice expenses. They also provide trophies for winners and high men in the various shoots. The men who shoot against Yale receive medals, and the man who makes the best score for the year receives a silver...
Since its purpose is to encourage trapshooting among all members of the University, membership is open to any student who is interested in the sport. Practice is held at the Boston University traps in Newton. Men interested may get further information from Charles Mason '26 at Dunster...
...real innovation is not so much in the early appearance of trombone and drum, nor even in a possible change from traditional football tactics, but in the policy of the cheer leaders. Hitherto the major sport captains have hopped about like true athletes. But perhaps because their training has been so varied, uniformity of movement has been surprisingly lacking. Nor have they always possessed the Websterian voice that could carry a message from sideline to colonade...