Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand and sixty-six men have competed in intramural sports this winter, it was revealed in statistics compiled yesterday by A. W. Samborski '26, director of this branch of the University's athletics. The total number of participators, however, is increased to 1222, for some men were engaged in more than one sport...
Having seen the need for a spring sport which would attract some athletes and still be enjoyable when played "scrub", the Department of Physical Education has decided to inaugurate a new sport at Harvard. This game, speedball, will combine the best features of football, soccer, basketball, and hockey, and be as enjoyable as tag football or squash...
Such, a practice would be an absolute contradiction of the tradition of athletics at Harvard. It has never been the policy of the athletic authorities to encourage any one sport at the expense of another. If football happens to be the form of athletic activity that the majority wishes to participate in, there is no reason for requiring them to enter some other field merely because it needs support. The aim of the Athletic Association is to offer an opportunity for those who wish to participate in sports to take part in whatever game they prefer. It is not that...
...process of development, and it is very hard to predict its future. Take for example the case of the helicopter. For years they have been endeavoring to perfect a ship which will land perpendicularly, but as yet they have been unsuccessful. While the helicopter makes a nice, little sport machine, I doubt if it will ever be developed as a practical means of eliminating the necessity of a large landing field. Still, things which we thought impossible 20 years ago have now become commonplace, and we really cannot tell what may eventually develop...
...Doubleday, Doran & Co. let him go, said nothing, and last week let the American Sketch, a failure, be merged quietly with the New York Tatler Social Digest, a smartchart owned by Carlton Publishing Co. The new monthly will be called The Tatler and American Sketch, devoted chiefly to society, sport, Long Island realty...