Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norman W. Shepard, athletic director and basketball coach at Davidson College since 1936, will succeed Bill Barclay as Harvard court mentor, the H.A.A. announced last night.
Curtis Harvey Jones '50 of Radnor, Pennsylvania and Winthrop House was named chairman of the Key's Non-Athletic Committee, which among other jobs, supplies guides to show official visitors around the University.
The Key's big job, of course, was taking care of visiting athletes. With only a few exceptions, such as local teams, representatives met every athletic squad that has played at Harvard this year, including ones that showed up at 7 a.m. A Key member would pick the team up...
But the Key's work is not confined to mothering Freshmen and welcoming athletes. Its non-athletic committee attends to a variety of other University visitors. Even Elis qualify; over the Yale Weekend, the Key set up an elaborate information bureau in Wadsworth House to help the confused.
Another of the non-athletic committee's jobs is finding berths in the Houses for visiting debaters. The committee's plans were badly shaken once this winter when the University of Pennsylvania showed up with a girl on its teams. Some last minute scurrying got the lady a bed in...