Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate period, were all prominent athletes. In direct contrast, however, are the leaders of this year's senior class. Only one of them is a member of a university team: Rogers, hockey star, was elected treasurer. Orr, the president, is track manager, but has no other connection with the sports field. The vice-president is captain of a minor team, swimming; while the secretary is not even remotely associated with any sport...
...those who may still think that football is becoming a business and not a sport, spring practice appears as a dangerous extension of the game. But its principle is the same as that of fall rowing, fall baseball, or fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value...
...statement issued at Weld Boat House yesterday announced the fact that the sculling season was now open at Harvard and all men desiring to participate in this sport can make inquiries at that building...
...charging, coming out of the line and falling on the ball. Captain J. E. Barrett '30, J. N. Trainer '31 and J. Potter were the only 'H' linemen who were present yesterday. Some of the members of the forward wall are expected out today while the interference of another sport will keep several men from participating at all. B. H. Ticknor '31 is playing baseball while R. H. O'Connell '30 is out for track. S. C. Burns '30 has just finished playing basketball but he is expected out in a few days...
Because the French Federation of Feminine Sports denied her application for an amateur racing license on the grounds she wore trousers and used language learned in the army camps of a martial grandfather, Madame Violette Morris of Paris, Olympic discus thrower and all-around athlete, sued the Federation for 100,000 francs. Because Nature had not shaped her conveniently for the accomplishment of her athletic ambitions, she last week horrified Paris by having a surgeon remove both her breasts. Said she: "Sport is all my life...