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The earliest known use of the word pantywaist is in the 1910s. OED's earliest evidence for pantywaist is from 1910, in the Lima News (Lima, Ohio). pantywaist is formed within English, by compounding.
An observer at Oberlin College in 1884 reported that at first women wore blouses with very full bloomers for the exercise period. The dean “would not all the students to go without a shirt, and the result was a scanty skirt and scanty bloomers, a suit that was anything but becoming. We had a woman make these suits at the gymnasium”.
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- Medieval period (1200 - 1485)
- Hanoverian period (1714 - 1790)
- Changing times (1790 -1830)
- Victorian Sport (1830 - 1901)
- Edwardian Sport (1901 - 1918)
People had little time or energy for recreational activities Leisure time activities were originally confined to feast days Games were local in nature, each village having its own particular activities for feast days • From time to time the government banned traditional activities in favour of archery training
Play and sport were largely ignored by the government People of all classes enjoyed their leisure to the full Increasing industrialisation demanded regular working patterns There was some pressure for Sunday to be a day of rest Large gatherings for sport often meant social disorder Regular, organised, rule-governed sport on a national sca...
Traditional sport was under attack from all sides Factory owners wanted a regular working week Property owners feared the damage caused by large crowds Churches criticised idleness, drunkenness and slack morality Commercialisation of sport developed, especially in horse racing, cricket and prize fighting
Sport developed in the context of industrial capitalism and class inequality Sport became linked to a moral code defined by the middle classes: it was accepted that sport developed character and morality competition had to be fair and rule-governed with similar conditions for all players sport was to be played, not for reward, but for its o...
Organised sporting involvement expanded rapidly across all classes Increasingly, the different classes played their sport separately Public school athleticism still dominated sport Male working class influence increased, notably in football in England and rugby in Wales. However, working class women were largely excluded from sporting involveme...
have long interested historians while suggesting that sport’s history also complicates many of these historical perspectives. Keywords: sport, modernity, identity, globalization, colonialism, empire, nationalism, mass culture, masculinity, liberalism ACADEMIC historians of modern sport occupy a curious position within their profession.
May 4, 2017 · Robert Edelman is a professor of Russian history and the history of sport at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) and Spartak Moscow: the People’s Team in the Workers’ State (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009).
Aug 4, 2016 · What I teach in my sports history class is how national history shapes physical standards for us all. In such countless ways, America wasted its real athletic potential. And then, in 1972, buoyed by the successes of the civil rights and feminist movements and political mandates to end segregation, women stepped up to the plate.
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Hermogenes of Xanthos wins the first of his 8 Olympic running crowns over three consecutive Olympic Games. 261 CE The list of victors running back to 776 BCE ends for the Olympic Games .
