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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Governor of New York and Alumni Marshal for this year's commencement, was President of the CRIMSON during the year in which the above letter was published. Commenting editorially in the issue containing the letter, the CRIMSON states...
...accepted his post as Director of Athletics under trying circumstances. Harvard's record in intercollegiate sport was at a low ebb which made the alumni thoroughly dissatisfied with the conduct of the athletic program and disinclined to contribute to its support. More than this, the name of college sport itself was under a cloud of criticism from persons who thought it harmful to the true purposes of a university; at Harvard this criticism was especially strong. If Mr. Bingham has brought harmony and helpful understanding--and he certainly has--out of discord and confusion, his success...
...Sixteen Yale alumni were prohibited from buying tickets for Yale football games because they did not use the seats which they had contracted to occupy at Yale-Harvard game last fall...
Contributions to the Harvard Fund totalled $184,362 during the past year, it was announced yesterday by D. T. W. McCord '21, executive secretary of the Fund Council. The gifts came from 5,639 men, a marked increase Alumni gave...
Harvard yard, instead of being the dominant portion of the university layout, seems destined to occupy a secondary position. This will be heartrending to those who love to think of the yard as synonymous with the college. Possibly the alumni will protest so loudly that the authorities will listen and modify their plans. But the whole trouble--from a sentimental stand-point--is that the university has out-grown its original boundaries and is obliged to find room elsewhere...