Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Voting on favorite persons and things the class of 1927 selected Roper as their favorite coach and football as the most enjoyable sport to watch, while preferring to play tennis. "Tom Jones" was decided the best novel, and, "The Big Parade" headed the list of favorite movies. Bridge is the choice amusement among the seniors at Princeton, and when not playing it they read "The Saturday Evening Post...
With the Harvard-Yale track meet and lacrosse game at New Haven on Saturday, the University sport season nears its climax. The next three weeks will be crowded with contests with the Blue in baseball, rowing, tennis, golf, and polo the athletes will be busy, closing the competitive year with the boat race on the Thames on June...
...survey of athletic contests of last year and to date this year shows that the Harvard-Yale competition is much keener than popular opinion would allow. The edge in victories actually rests with Harvard. Each university can claim three major sport victories, with one tie contest. In the lesser sport engagements, the Crimson holds a 9 to 8 margin of success, with one meeting tied...
Last spring's contests on track, turf, and river were equally productive of victories to both universities until the Elitriumph on the Thames last June settled the final verdict in favor of the New Haven athletes. Harvard's minor sport wins in tennis and golf were balanced by Yale successes in outdoor polo and lacrosse. In the major contests, however, the victory of the powerful Blue eight gave Yale an eleventh hour advantage as far as spring sports went, and evened up the count for the whole year, a hockey win and football tie having placed Harvard ahead...
...Venerable Robert Henry Charles, 71, Archdeacon of Westminster, erudite translator of the Ethiopia Book of Jubilees: "To find one's pleasure in a sport which consists of torturing and killing a defenseless animal bespeaks at best a thoughtless person whose outlook on life is immeasurably lower than that of the wolf or the tiger...