Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer long, in parks and playgrounds of the U.S. zone, some 10,000 German boys have been forgetting how to goosestep while they mastered a new sport-baseball. Egged on by G.I.s, opposing nines have knocked homers and stolen bases while frenzied fans bawled out the umpire with shouts of: "Hornochs! Faulenzer! Dieb!" (Blockhead! Bum! Crook...
...storm broke in Hobbies, a magazine devoted to the delights of private boondoggling. A recent issue included a report on a new sport-mouseboat racing -the invention of a ten-year-old anonymous moppet. Necessary paraphernalia: 18-inch racing boats, mice, a bathtub or pond. In racing, the mice propel the boats by walking a treadmill attached to a small paddle wheel. Said Hobbies: "No cruelty is imposed on the creature since experience shows that mice derive much enjoyment from their wheel-turning activity...
...Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thought otherwise. In an ultimatum to Hobbies, officers of the Royal Society deplored the sport. Said an R.S.P.C.A. inspector with finality: "Anyone who knows about boys will know that ... the mice will be prodded unmercifully to ginger them up." Britons tensed themselves for a finish fight. Then the iron curtain clanked down. Hobbies censored all news of mouseboat racing, refused to divulge even the inventor's name...
Scoring for the house championship is computed on the basis of entrance of the houses into a sport and the position which it holds at the end of the competition. Points are forfeited for defaults by teams or individuals. Participation and placing in major sports credits a house with more points than those awarded for activity in minor sports. Included among the major sports are football, squash and basketball. Touch football, swimming, and tennis are listed as minor sports...
Trips to Princeton or Hanover, association with the men who plan; play and assist the spectacular fall sport of football, options on choice football tickets, the prestige of winning Freshman numerals these are a few of the attractions to the Freshman Managerial Competition. To open participation as soon as possible to the incoming Freshmen, a meeting of all interested candidates for the competition will be held at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday, September 25, in the Varsity Club next to the Harvard Union. All men are invited to attend whether they have had past experience...