Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under Jesse Hawley at Dartmouth. J. L. Knox '98, coach of the University second football team, and chief of the scouting staff will give supplementary lectures, while V. P. Kennard '09, who has had charge of the kickers on the University eleven will lecture on this branch of the sport...
Larry Conley, who is in charge of the boxing in the University will be in charge of a course in that sport, the instruction period extending from July 8 to 26, while H. C. Cowles will, as in former years, give instruction in tennis and squash throughout the full six weeks period of the Summer School term...
Squash is by far the most popular sport, almost twice as many men going out for it as track, which stands next in popularity. Squash has held its place as the most popular Freshman sport for a number of years and is calling out more men every season. Trackmen this year number 106, as compared to only 70, the number which turned out last year...
Crew and basketball number 99 men each, tying for third place. The only sport which presents a noticeable decrease in popularity from last year is crew, while basketball has almost 30 percent more men this year than last. Men taking special corrective exercise number 94, a decided decrease from last year...
...plan is just one more symptom of the development of sport as a science. The slow-motion movies, carefully charted diagrams, athletic association magazines and publicity bureaus, highly-paid coaches who have learned their trades thoroughly in schools of experience and theory, and all the rest of the vast modern machinery of athletics are part of the same movement. One can develop this most recent addition to overemphasis, that boogey-man of undergraduate publications, or one can praise the ingenuity of the idea...