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...Harvard's decision yesterday not to sign the N.C.A.A. television agreement is another important move toward a practical football policy. One cannot de-emphasize football, and at the same time play it for revenue. The N.C.A.A. agreement was merely a business move which kept the necessary big time football apparatus polished. Damaging to any hopes for true amateurism, it was also probably illegal under the anti-trust acts...
...Corporation did not meet yesterday, and hence none of the complicated apparatus for choosing a new president could have been put in motion. This means that, unless a special meeting of the Overseers is called, the next opportunity the Corporation will have for naming a new president will be June 11, just before Commencement exercises...
...text of the Council Order is as follows: "That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to direct the Chief of Police to immediately arrange with the officials of Harvard University to have all streets adjoining the University accessible to Fire apparatus, particularly in the Mill, Plympton and South St. areas, by eliminating all-night parking...
...revolutionary Macfadden inventions. Most sensible of these was the "physical culture watch"-a turnip-size timepiece whose dial showed what exercises should be performed and what food eaten at given hours (e.g., "8 a.m. No breakfast. Take glass cool water. Walk to work. Identify the birds . . ."). Others included an apparatus for sluicing "pure Macfadden air" over the skins of fully dressed businessmen while they sat working at their desks, and a narrow-gauge railroad with open flatcars for the use of customers in department stores. ("It will revolutionize Macy's," said Bernarr. "Then Gimbels.") Most staggering of all, though...
When close to 30 members of the Overseers meet at 11 this morning in the Faculty Room of University Hall, they will not definitely known whether the meeting will concern the usual University affairs or whether the Corporation will set the complicated apparatus in motion for chosing the new president...