Word: actions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best news of the day came when it was revealed that Captain Torbie Macdonald was certain to see action against New Hampshire Saturday. But for a bad case of indigestion he would have played last Saturday. He is now off the doctor's list and showed a lot of zip in signal drills...
...teams provided all of the day's action as they engaged in a stiff 50 minute scrimmage, worked on pass offense, and get a look at some New Hampshire plays. Backfield Coach Johnny Wood scouted the Wildcats Saturday and reported that they have one very good tackle and three dangerous backs...
Over ten lettermen from last year's squad and a number of former Freshman and Junior Varsity players reported for action. The Varsity veterans include: Captain Bill Coleman, Forbes Perkins, Warren Winslow, Skip Ervin, Dave Eaton, Stacey Hulse, Bill Claflin, Pren Willetts, Sherm Gray, and Vint Freedley...
...happens, of course, Mr. Greene's reason for his action is a pitifully puny-one. No one questions Browder's authority as a Communist because of this comparatively innocuous run-in with the law. No one seems to take Mr. Greene's objection seriously besides himself; it is uniformly ignored by his critics, who do not bother even to answer it. The Council on Academic Freedom flips it off by stating truly if tritely that "a man is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court...
...trouble-shooter and clean-up man. Such a reversal is dictated not only by the poorness of Mr. Greene's argument but also by the expediency of calling off the dogs. A thousand years of logical argumentation would fail to convince many people that Harvard--by Mr. Greene's action--is not squelching the Communist view of affairs. They will be mollified only by a reissuance of Browder's speaking permit. Indeed, if the Corporation persists in the course chosen thus far, there may be ground to suspect that some of the glibly-flung accusations are justified...