Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worth of House Sport Expansion...
...conclusion, let us look at the plan as a whole. The goal of the House athletic scheme is a double one, quantity and quality. Improving one without the other defeats the very purpose of sport. The plan we launch attempts bettering both at once, quality from the top, with the invigoration which will come from the erstwhile Junior Varsity and minor sports man, and quantity all the way through, in the tremendous expansion of the House program which the plan affords...
...hand on numerous occasions to give advice which many of the non-Junior Varsity men would never have been able to receive. With the complete abolition of the Junior Varsity hockey team, the possibility of a regular House hockey coach, handling also the Freshmen, is extremely practical. In another sport, baseball, the new coach has expressed his willingness to look on the House nines as Varsity "farms." Such will be the case of other House teams, boosted by better material and at least one hitherto Varsity mentor...
Flexibility in any athletic program is essential, as college interest in the world of sport rises and wanes at no predictable times and along no predictable lines. A few present hardships, however, must not be permitted to interfere with general good on a broad basis. The plan, it is believed, will form the second step, with the inauguration of the endowment plan considered as the first, toward "athletics for all" at Harvard...
...much-distilled terms, the fond picture projected by the report is of a vastly more vigorous intra-mural sports program. Its scope is grander, the facilities are more equal to the demands, the coaching is better, the spirit of competition is keener, the participation is larger. The elusive fire-fly of "athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...