Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boxing as an intercollegiate sport at Harvard was given trial at Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night with striking success. It remains now only to grace the most manly form of athletic endeavor with the dignity and title of minor sport. As a form of clean, hard competition bringing into play the highest degree of skill training and condition, boxing has a distinct place among the organized athletics of the University...
...years. The chief objection to boxing as a form of intercollegiate activity has emanated from the stigma attached to the professional "fight" game, and the fear that unfriendly feeling among rival spectators would be aroused and fostered by the sight of men "fighting" in the ring. Opposition to the sport on the grounds that it lends itself to instances of brutality and unnecessary injury to the participants is to be considered less seriously. These evils can and have been eliminated through careful and intelligent regulation of the competition...
Killing goodies is good sport...
Plans for the league of class tennis teams which will be inaugurated this spring, adding tennis to the ever-growing list of sports carried on under Harvard's athletics-for all policy, have been announced. Tennis is the sixth sport to which Director of Athletics Bingham's policy has been extended...
...seems there was once a person who though that football was not a disease, except of sport writers, who thought that "bridge" was over emphasized as well as education, who believed that the Harvard of today is a fairly decent place despite the Liberal Club, the Lampoon, the final clubs, two or three others and the fact that Coolidge is still living away from home, who had a vague idea Boston was more a state of the mind than the mind of a state, who, in spite of his being averse to the traffic on Harvard Square met it half...