Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are rare moments in sport when a game becomes more than a game; when chance permits a climax beyond the ability of art, to arrange a climax remote from the pattern of the game and in itself glorious or sad. Such a moment occurred last week at the end of the football game in which Notre Dame played against the Army...
...spirit that prompts men to go down to the Charles in shells is an enigma to many undergraduates. The rhythmic monotony of a sport in which excellence is attained only after variety has been eliminated is a pleasure only to the initiated. But the large number of college oarsmen testifies to the fact that there is hidden in the chiseled motion of an eight a subtle fascination. The Harvard Athletic Association has always seen to it that facilities are available for everyone who wished to experience the peculiar pleasure of rowing, and today visitors marvel at the great number...
Last year about 20 men obtained permission to adopt tumbling as their winter recreation. Their interest was so keen, and the sport was so well founded that this year it has gained official recognition. There will be two sections meeting at 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the apparatus section off the main floor of Hemenway gymnasium. At first the sections will be divided up merely in respect to numbers, but as soon as any classification can be made, one group will be composed of advanced and one of elementary tumblers...
Members of the four oared crew which represented United States in the Olympics last summer will receive the minor sport "11" it was announced yesterday by the H. A. A. as a result of a last Monday meeting of the Harvard Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...
Grouse and Partridge flourish in most U. S. woods, which they fill with the muffled thunder of their wings. Grousing is the especial sport of certain writers, notably W. O. McGeehan who is eager to investigate the woods of Pennsylvania in company of Damon Runyon...