Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students from England, they are allowed to bring 250 pounds a year over here for four years. Before devaluation, this amounted to about $1000 per annum, enough to cover a big part of College expenses. Now the allowance is only $700, and those students with no sources of income in the United States are in a predicament...
...weeks go by, Helen drops her unsavory friends under the influence of her unadmitted love for the musician. Then, just as his big chance comes, his instruments are stolen. Will Helen save the day? How will she get money fro new instruments? Will the young man realize her Sacrifice and forgive her thus compromising his Minneapolis mores...
...three alumni in each state who would be willing to spend their Saturday afternoons looking for talent among the high schools in their area. Some of this talent will want to go to Notre Dame, some of it will be bought up and sent to the big Southern schools. Harvard can't get these boys, and Harvard probably doesn't want many of them, for football players should never be allowed to come here unless they can pass entrance exams in equal competition with their less agile contemporaries...
...believe that anybody wants Harvard to go big time. Harvard doesn't need the kind of reputation that goes with beating Michigan and NorthCarolina--it already has an academic reputation, which is far more valuable...
...morally justifiable to charge upwards of five dollars admission to see Harvard get walloped by a series of "big name" opponents. The Alumni, of course, are the first to shout cheat about this, and here they are right. If we are to continue with the present philosophy of scheduling, we should play five-dollar football; if we cannot play five-dollar football, we should admit it and charge $1.80 for games with teams in our class. Harvard cannot attempt to pay for its athletic program with expensive football tickets unless it produces football worth that price of admission...