Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for football being consistently lower than the other sports, probably the best answer that can be advanced is that in football there are more men who come to college to engage in their chosen activity than in any other major sport in the College. Track men noticeably, and baseball and crew candidates to a lesser extent, are drawn from men who come to college without big reputations in their preparatory schools...
Divorced. Clare Briggs of Manhattan, newspaper cartoonist (The Days o/ Real Sport, When a Feller Needs a Friend); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle, N.Y., on testimony that Cartoonist Briggs had been in residence with a pseudo Mrs. Briggs. The Briggses were married in 1900, have three children...
...activities were great sport, kiddies. Peter found that you did nothing, but that the matters that needed attention were somehow attended to. And all the time there was the glory of being important. Countless little dangles hung from his watch chain and his name was on countless lips as well as often seen in the columns of the college paper. The dances were even better, for there he and his friends met all the nice girls. To Peter their conversation scintillated; it was ever so much more clever than his own. These girls really were clever, that was the wonderful...
...years ago the coon-skin coat, at an initial cost of from two to six hundred dollars, was regarded as standard equipment by the sport-model type of undergraduate. Many were entirely happy but a few hopelessly envious and dejected without one. A large number of undergraduates would, however, tell their fathers that everybody was wearing one. Its vogue is passing, even among its erstwhile votaries. It would be pleasant to believe that it was being discarded because it was expensive. I am afraid this had nothing to do with it. Some undergraduate must have noticed that young...
...necessary. But the inconvenience of using this course has always been a serious handicap, and the latest move of the Athletic Committee will overcome some of the most serious obstacles in the way of making provision for golfing enthusiasts and bestirring interest in such a popular and prominent sport...