Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Murphy said Buildings and Grounds is currently trying hard to make the grass grow in the Yard again. He said the salt that was ground into the soil during the big snow storms and the strikers who stood on the ground at the beginning of the spring almost ruined the grass completely...
Harvard's hopes rest a good deal on Cornell. The Big Red, champs last year and runner-up in 1967, has yet to play Princeton and Brown, the two teams who have only lost once. But a parallel with Rick Nelson may be drawn here: Cornell's lacrosse team is not what it used to be. The defending champs were routed by Harvard, 12-4, and succumbed to Penn...
...suddenly, Cornell has won an Ivy League game. The Big Red dumped Yale, 12-9, Saturday after scoring seven consecutive goals in the middle of the game. Eli coach Dick Corrigan said, "We gave the game away by making too many mistakes and not picking up ground balls." That, however, is a typical Yalie line after an unexpected loss, and all losses at Yale are unexpected from the Elis' point of view. They said the same type of thing after last fall's Harvard-Yale football game...
Barzun's analysis is that the university has become too much a servant of the outside world. It has become too new and too big. He sees its future as dim: ". . . the parts will being to drop off, as the autonomous professor has begun to do; or go into spells of paralysis, as the student riots have shown to be possible. Apathy and secession will take care of the rest, until a stump of something once alive is left to vegetate on the endowment or the annual tax subsidy. The change will be gradual enough for everything to adjust...
...main part of the store is the paperback area with an exceptional fiction section. The selection looks like the natural, obvious one for a student community, but--and this is the book store manager's big headache--there are at present "67,000 paperbacks in print," and the next book listing them all will probably double in size. In the limited space of one book store, someone has to do a lot of choosing and picking. Reading International has done a good...