Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from the fact that Mr. Lynch lives in a Business School dormitory which overlooks at least a part of the secret football field, his qualifications as a sports writer are based upon his ability as an amateur hockey player and the possession of a W.O. McGeehanesque acepticism. As a hockey player, Mr. Lynch was one of Boston's best amateur puck-stoppers and this position naturally gave him a detached view of the game that was bound to make him a student of the ice sport. Though still an undergraduate, the rotund Hearst man is already the Boston American...
...Hapgood is the power behind the typewriter on which the Boston Herald's news is daily pounded out. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, and graduated from the University in the class of 1925. His dignity makes up for what it loses in not being paraded through the Herald sport columns on a "by-line" by the fact that he has an office of notorious hospitality in the Cambridge Savings Bank Building. If the mere possession of an office with all rent paid is not sufficient to prove Dick a thoroughly good correspondent, let it be mentioned that he possesses...
Before Saturday at 5 o'clock all Freshmen whose fall sport has been crew, cross-country, or football, must sign up for a winter sport at Wadsworth House, and report Monday to their new athletic instructors...
...sickness, fear causing the ridiculous or mischievous while under the suggestor's spell. They fear also that the skillful will to which they might submit themselves might make them perform unwonted acts after they awoke. Neither of these fears has authority. The physician using hypnotism makes no sport with his patients. Even in hypnosis a patient only most reluctantly performs against his inherent moral nature. Awake he does practically nothing of the sort. Hypnotism does, however, permit the operator to penetrate so deeply into the personality of his patient that no one dares play with...
...committee made it plain that it had arrived at its decision with due regard to the fact that Caldwell's ineligibility under the rule affecting athletes who had represented another university in a sport are ineligible to play for Yale in that branch of athletics, had been raised by both Princeton and Harvard, and based its action on the fact that to set the precedent for breaking the rule would be a dangerous step to take...