Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than the desire to serve the University that prompted "Eddie" Farrell to battle with death while crossing the Atlantic with the stricken trainer, who had for forty years served the cause of sport and sportsmanship so well. There was in that unselfish action of his the spirit that inspires men to things of which they knew not they were capable. And in the recognition of that spirit there is recognition also of that harmony of body, athletics, and the men who teach its laws...
...Bingham, the concessions have been operated with a view to reducing all the evils in the past associated with the practice. Undoubtedly the fact that they were all held by athletes does throw a cloud over the situation, but it is easy to see how the practice may well have grown up inadvertently and as a matter of convenience. The men most likely to be known to the H. A. A. are of course athletes, and there is no great difficulty in assuming that the jobs in its control have been assigned to them quite innocently...
...unreasonable to suppose that the two activities may be happily combined. The obvious method of securing an equitable distribution of jobs between athletes and non-athletes is to have this phase of the situation handled by the Employment Office. The actual direction of the men given positions, however, might well be taken over by some individual or organization familiar with the operation of such enterprises and more or less in touch with the policies of the H. A. A. in the conduct of affairs on Soldiers Field...
...employed on the concessions. At Yale twenty-five per cent of the profits incident to the operation of athletic concessions are set aside in a loan fund for needy undergraduates. This seems to be both a convenient and appropriate solution of the problem and one which might be well applied at Harvard...
...matters are allowed to go on as they are and the operation of concessions be allowed to return certain individuals an income disproportionate to their efforts, there may well be a tendency for an overzealous Employment Manager to discriminate against athletes. While being faintly humorous such a situation would hardly be fundamentally sound and it is up to both organizations now responsible for the successful operation of the concessions to work out some carefully considered plan for the operation of the concessions which will obviate the abuses possible under the present arrangement...