Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since channel swimming become a practically unknown sport, after it was learned that all one needed was a heavy blanket of fog and a strong oarsman, the spotlight of publicity for not doing things has shifted to aviation. "Our Ruth", as we never call her, proved that all one needed was to come down beside a big merchantman, be picked up in the orthodox way, taken to port, and live thereafter in a Paradise of dotted lines...
...problem has been encountered in the Harvard Graduate Schools, where the difficulty has been in finding means to bring the graduate student out of his cubicle. The evil of the paucity of outside interests has been in a measure allayed by such activities as the inter-mural sport leagues and the Graduate Societies of Harvard and Radcliffe...
With over 90 Freshmen signed up for winter track, a larger number than has ever before come out for this sport, and with regular University practice beginning Monday, the winter track season is getting under...
...influence of Percy Haughton on American football began when he played for four years on the University eleven. From that first connection is traceable the growth of a personality that was, with Walter Camp's one of the most profound forces in American sport. When radicals would have turned the game into an event of no more sporting significance than a tug-of-war, or would have made it over into a kind of outdoor basketball, his was always among the first of the restraining hands. He recognized the place of football in American sport, and would...
...absolute obedience and sincerity from the members of his squads, he was yet not unmindful that football was a game. The tradition which made football for any and all a part of the athletic policies of Harvard and other universities had its inception in Percy Haughton. The annals of sport are not so complete but that heroes' names are soon forgotten. It is safe to predict that this will not be the case with the memory of Percy Haughton. Even if it should be go, he would be content with a lifework well done, whose...