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...mike, he cried: "We've been trying to steal a coach from another university. Now another university is trying to steal our most important man. We can't go on without Bob Sproul!" The band played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. A blue-&-gold banner implored: STICK WITH us, BOB! When Sproul promised that "Your wishes will not be ignored," cheering undergraduates raised the roof. The Columbia job went instead to Ike Eisenhower, whose doctoral degrees are also honorary...
While upwards of 45,000 banner-waving fans file into Soldiers Field this afternoon, over in Medford a well-trained Varsity soccer team opens its season against the Jumbos from Tufts College. With returning lettermen at seven of the 11 positions, the booters rate an edge over Tufts which in the past has never been noted for particularly strong soccer squads...
...Which one? Great Heavens, are you mad?" With these magisterial words a bowler-lidded Brahmin in the pages of this week's New Yorker indicates a preference for the Crimson banner over the green and gold of Western Maryland. If you put the same first question in cold cash to a sporting speculator last night as to the outcome of this afternoon's Stadium encounter you could probably have come up with 25 to 1 for the long shot. You'd also be mightly lonesome...
...unperturbed Harvard men went calmly about their business last night, a banner-waving, authentic Green Terror checked in at a downtown Boston hotel...
...less profound level, Harvard will reflect the nationwide spurt of interest in social and sporting activities. Publications, literary and otherwise, should enjoy a banner year. The football team appears headed for one of its most successful seasons in several years, and the announcement of a new seating plan by the H.A.A. should increase the enjoyment of the spectators...