Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will give the University a strong claim on it. The game today gives the University a chance to avenge its defeat in Philadelphia; also it is the last contest before the first Yale game. For these reasons it is an important contest and merits the keenest interest and strongest support...
...expelled. At this the three lower classes went to the President declaring that they would leave College. The Seniors applied for recommendation to another college. The Overseers of the College, however, held a meeting, and by confirming the action of the President and tutors and announcing their resolution to support the subordinate government of the College, soon brought the scholars to a sense of their fault and a stop was put to the revolt...
Minor sports receive support in the University, in material, interest and enthusiasm, to a greater extent than in most colleges. The principle of having teams enough for everyone who has the ability to make them is an excellent one; it is the best way to bring the greatest athletic good to the greatest number. However, the minor sports occasionally have a complaint to make about the support given them, especially in the way of finances. The golf team is the latest organization to want its athletic budget increased; it seems that the present appropriation does not pay the necessary expenses...
While a sport that is confined to a few men and that has comparatively few followers in the University cannot expect the support a more popular sport receives, it has a right to expect that a reasonable share of its necessary expenses will be paid by the institution it represents. Golf comes under this head; the team has made a creditable showing and its complaint is not without justification...
...conditions under which competitive sports are carried on, added publicity that comes from journalistic emphasis on athletics as a source of news, the large pecuniary profits that may go with professionalism, the intense rivalries between communities and between educational institutions in support of their athletes' prowess, all these have had the effeet of making maintenance of amateur sport with its traditional indifference to monetary reward more difficult than if used to be. "Competition for the love of sport" is the essence of amateurism. According to the committee: and it is a form of competition that well wishers of athletes honor...