Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...players chosen by Coach Cowles are captain W. W. Ingraham '25, W. P. Dixon '25, Alden Briggs '25, J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, G. H. Perkins '26, Parke Cummings ocC., P. M. Lenhart '27, L. O. Pratt '26, A. R. Allen '26, E. M. Upjohn '25, L. N. Gordon '27, and Bernard Bandler '26, Partt, who is on the hockey team, and Dixon and Upjohn, who are now engaged in squash, will not be able to report for tennis until later...
...good common sense of Mr. Allen's article in the independent is its great merit. No one can read it without acknowledging that "rather imposing mountains" have been made "out of molehills"; that Harvard still has a rather substantial and progressive existence, and that there is some basis for a non-pessimistic view of the future. His conclusion that spirited discussion is, as a matter of fact, an aid toward achievement is in agreeable harmony with his general tenor of reasonableness...
Everybody has been more or less conscious that a complete knowledge of the affairs of the University would silence a host of worried critics. This knowledge has never been forthcoming. Neither alumni nor student body has been taken into the confidence of the administration. Mr. Allen writes that the present wave of criticism is "mainly a symptom of general irritation," and in the next sentence unconsciously indicates the cause. A loyal graduate, he says, complained "about the need of changing the policy of a certain department, and was relieved to hear that it had already been changed two years...
...alumni would only look into the facts before throwing brickbats," exhorts Mr. Allen; ah! indeed, but from whom are they going to get the facts? Everybody can not be connected officially with the University. It is clearly in the hands of the administration to make these facts avoilabel: and hitherto, interested observers have looked in vain for them, even in the President's Report. The result has been a foolish. Irritating situation, which Mr. Allen's article helps to relieve. Give all who are concerned the same information to which Mr. Allen had access, and all will reach his sane...
Cottle and Allen, backfield men, are the men mentioned as likely contenders for Bingham's place as football leader...