Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less acute, but it's growing. Professional football a year ago reasoned the same way as boxing, and most teams boosted their attendance figures with bans on local TV. The colleges, however, have acted less quickly, largely because only he East had suffered attendance drops and because effective action against television would have to come from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The eastern schools, Harvard included, are currently gathered in New York for their annual meeting, and it's expected that they will try to agree on a united stand against TV to bring to the NCAA's January meeting...
...Harvard name as a shield for their activities. Thus The New Student, a magazine published by the Harvard Youth for Democracy, was denied Harvard recognition in January, 1948, on the grounds that 70 percent of its contributions and two-thirds of its circulation came from outside Harvard. This action was taken despite the fact that the magazine was edited entirely by Harvard students. It is unfair to imply that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities refused to recognize the magazine because of its political views, for, as Dean Bender said in reporting the Committee's action, "the best evidence that...
Donald T. Fox '51 was elected chairman of the New England Region of Students for Democratic Action at the regional convention last weekend, and Ann Dupre '50 was chosen secretary...
...member-at-large of the executive board of the Liberal Union (SDA affiliate in the College), will serve as coordinator of New England activities of the student branch of Americans for Democratic Action...
...increase in the number of television-owners, the Roller Derby all of a sudden sprang full-blown, much like Canasta. The true aficionado knows at least a few of the regular contes-around quite so fast as the men, who hit 35 m.p.h., but they provide more action, past performances and thus he knows who is good and who isn't, who the rough one are and who the fast ones are. This, of course, heightens the interest when he actually gets to see his heroes in action...