Word: minor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at Harvard has voted the minor sport "H" to seventeen players and Manager J. P. Skinner ocC of the varsity soccer team...
Although the status of minor sports at Harvard has always been secure, there is one outstanding exception; the lack of a University boxing team. Two years ago an informal match was held with Tech, but since that time there has been no attempt whatsoever to establish even a semi-official organization. Consequently the activity is now confined to the annual University tournament, and to instruction with Mr. Conley...
...several boxing teams. Nor can the oversight be due to lack of precedent and the four that there would be no matches for such a team. For a number of years both Yale and Dartmouth, to mention but two possible competitors, have had official boxing teams to whose members minor sports letters are awarded...
...heartily in favor of putting the sport on a firm basis, and that the only thing necessary to carry this out was a vote of the Student Council. The interest in boxing which these facts indicate would justify some definite action on the part of the Council. With minor sports becoming more and, more popular, the addition of boxing to their number would certainly be a constructive move...
...that with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the Houses as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses will afford there will probably be no question of anyone's eating a large majority of meals in his House. Many other minor objections will doubtless be forgotten as soon as men are actually living in the Houses. G. C. St. John...