Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because of the authors' conviction that the current complaints over Harvard football can hurt the wrong people. We are not after anybody's scalp. We intend no slur on the current Harvard team, which played through a gruelling schedule to the top of its abilities, but which was outmatched almost every week. We have no reservations about Arthur Valpey, who probably is not perfect but who is certainly a very fine coach. We advocate neither installing athletic scholarships nor giving up football...
...should be perfectly obvious what this means. It means that Yale men, and Princeton men, and alumni of almost every other college in the country, are getting boys interested in going to their school...
After all, Harvard should not need athletic scholarships to entice men to Cambridge. The University not only offers an A.B. degree of unmatched prestige value, but also has as good a range of courses as any other college, better taught than in almost any other college...
...League football, we must broaden the personnel at Valpey's disposal. It might be nice to upset Stanford or Army or Cornell with a team playing strictly for fun, but it is not morally justifiable to ask such a team to expose itself to a steady stream of almost inevitable injuries. Such a casualty list as this year's is a direct result of playing a schedule composed exclusively of teams which are not only deeper in talent but also deeper in numbers. One group of eleven men playing against two groups of eleven men gets tired; when it gets...
With an appeal to those who have not yet made contributions, Haynes announced gifts totalling close to $34,000. Faculty contributions have reached almost $25,000, while employee donations have passed the $6,500 mark. Student gifts amount to about...