Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtain a fairly definite idea of undergraduate opinion on the question. The subject of the debate seemed likely to attract a large interest; two years ago, the question of football overemphasis drew a thousand students to the Union, a majority of whom agreed that the undue importance on the sport should be checked. Speakers with reputations in the world of athletics were on the schedule last night, the Boston sporting writers predicted an enthusiastic crowd, provision was made for several hundred people--and less than sixty undergraduates appeared...
...possible that you could expect any dog fancier to subscribe for or advertise in a magazine that could countenance or publish such an ignorant, derisive, misleading article as appeared in your SPORT column, Feb. 27 issue, under the caption of "Putting...
...your Feb. 27, 1928 issue p. 24 under SPORT your correspondent was not very observant or informed. Meadow Lark Fearnot is a lady beagle not a gentleman and it is most doubtful if she would have "enjoyed biting a small girl who sat" etc., as whatever their faults may be it is hard to find more docile creatures than beagles. I speak from experience, having a pack of twelve couples (one of which got "best beagle-under 13" at this show...
...season is undertaken and the ends it is intended to serve. In some colleges spring practice has been a large element in reducing football to profession--a profession which claims the exclusive attention of a large number of athletes for the entire year and in which the remnants of sport for pleasure or for health are scarcely discernible. From the start of the spring season, down through summer training camps, early fall practice, the regular season, and even into a winter of gymnasium work-outs the player is harassed by a sense of duty, he is urged to devote...
...night, it will be the first dual meeting of representatives of the two universities for over a dozen years. Not since 1914, when Harvard defeated Michigan on the gridiron, 7 to 0, for the third consecutive time, have the Crimson and Wolverine forces met in any field of dual sport...