Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of the Harvard Athletic Committee which was submitted a few weeks ago to the President and Fellows of the College, and which was printed in part in the CRIMSON of October 23, has been commented on considerably in the editorial columns of the eastern press. The Alumni Bulletin is the latest journal in this field. In the issue of November 5, the graduate publication says editorially...
...There are two groups of men to whom this appeal is especially made, the 'public' and the 'athletic' alumni.' In the first case, it is hoped that the new of the winning games will make a good impression upon people who do not know the college in other ways. In this sense winning teams are 'good advertising.' It is believed that wherever the news of victory goes, 'boys' will be attracted to the college, their friends will be impressed by its strength, and so the numbers and the prestige of the institution will be increased...
...appeal to the 'athletic alumni' is very similar. These men are the graduates and non-graduates of the college who value athletic victories very highly . . . For these men a college is an athletic club with certain other very irritating appendages. But the greater number of the group are not so dull as this. They commonly believe, first, that victories give 'good advertising,' and second, that victories indicate better than anything else the quality of the undergraduate life, and even of the college instruction and administration. For lack of other standards, they judge the college by this, with which they...
...college education based on the hypothesis that all teachers are supermen and that all students are paragons of industry. But unhappily on such Utopian conditions are in sight. What we want is something that will point the way to a better use of the human material at hand. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...Harvard football in particular, ending with the solemn proposal that college football teams be placed on a truly business-like basis by the formation of stock companies, organized to manipulate the interests of college football teams in such a way as will best insure profitable dividends to the alumni stockholders, with perhaps an occasional bonus to the college which makes all this exploitation possible...