Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inmates Aren't Students...
This is a paradoxical position and leaves the affair wide open to criticism. On the one hand the Smoker is charged with pulling the Yard together; on the other the Committee says that freshmen aren't ready for "unity" or "orientation" or any other Smoker blessings until the spring term is well underway. By February freshmen are pretty well oriented anyway, and it's a bit late for the Smoker to do much good...
Alex Rupp, in the 128 class, has been getting almost too heavy for his position lately. Chafee says Rupp's weight-gaining pounds home the need for some more lightweights on the team. But that doesn't mean that Bill Joyner at 121 and Chip Carter at 136 aren't a feather in any coaches...
...flying squad of the Three Little Steamshovels, out to develop some big league baseball players who aren't from the corn country or the south, landed is Briggs Cage Saturday and dropped a few hints to the assembled mob of high school coaches, H.A.A. moguls and passers-by on the care and feeding of future stars. The upshot of the session was the startling intelligence that each ballplayer is an individual problem and must be treated as such by his coach...
Only 61 of today's registrants are new, and even they aren't genuinely new. They are men who have been at Harvard before but who took leaves of absence, self-imposed or otherwise. For the first time since before the war there aren't any new freshmen in the mid-year census. Last year there were three...