Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sport writing fraternity recognize their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport. This may be due to self-consciousness, or sheer ignorance of the sanctity of their calling. Or it may be that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write...
...changed their character as mere sport and made them important adjuncts to statecraft and diplomacy". His task has expanded beyond the realm of common reporter so that today it is of such significance that Mr. Perry feels justified in saying that there are few sport writers who "recognized their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport...
Again this year the report of President Lowell is notable not so much for the account it renders of a Harvard stewardship as it is for the distinguished contribution it makes to current educational discussion. The pronouncement that members of the Faculty are not entitled to representation on the University governing boards is perhaps out of tune with the newer note in educational administration, but it is sound doctrine just the same, and it is doctrine which needs to be often set fourth in these days when there is much loose talk about, "the natural antagonisms of professors and trustees...