Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject termed "Cramming" is a favorite with most editorial writers. Every college student knows so much about cramming. Whether he has indulged in this mild sport of learning "a la lump" or not, he is aware of the advantages and the evils. The chief complaint against cramming is that a large body of material gone over at a rapid pace late at night does not "stick." This is, indeed, most unfortunate. If only cramming had among other things, certain adhesive qualities, the worries of many students would be at an end. Those who are veterans would be exonerated from that...
...above totals were arrived at by awarding four points to the winner in each sport, three to second place, two for third place, and one for the last team. The complete table of inter-dormitory spring sports results follows: Baseball Crew Tennis Total Smith 2 1/2 4 4 10 1/2 Standish 4 0 2 1/2 6 1/2 McKinlock 2 1/2 3 1 6 1/2 Gore...
...their game than fencers--the resignation of the man who has directed Harvard fencing for eight years means the passing of a well loved personality. Fresh from the schools of France, where swordsmanship is still the gentleman's exercise, M. Danguy brought to Harvard a knowledge of the sport which his Gallic fervor quickly imparted to his pupils. His success became apparent in the records of his teams, but even more in the devotion of the ever-increasing number of men who came to learn from...
...play space but on the other hand the thickening craffic has given many ingenious little fellows a new game, that of spotting the makes of automobiles at great distances. Of late years however the imitative impulse on the part of the nation's body designers has reduced the sport to the most minute sort of scholasticism, and painstaking detail work is necessary in order to tell the newer makes apart at a thousand yards...
However, when he accepted his position at Syracuse it was with the understanding that swimming was to be made a major sport, and since no change has been made up to the present time, he feels at liberty to resign his post and take up his coaching elsewhere. When the Athletic Governing Board ignored raising the standard of swimming as a Hill sport at Tuesday's meeting, Ulen apparently felt that he was under no obligation whatsoever. As a result, Syracuse is losing a man who has been invaluable as a producer of swimmers and swimming teams, and the entire...