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When the Crimson varsity eight rows Yale in the 100th anniversary of the first intercollegiate athletic event on June 30, it will be using a brand new shell, named the "William J. Bingham" in honor of Harvard's former athletic director. Bingham retired last spring after 25 years of service. The shell is the gift of an anonymous donor...
Charlie Hutter was 19 years old in 1937, a sophomore who had already set Harvard swimming records in the 220 and 50 yard freestyle. Harvard's young director of athletics, Bill Bingham, headed the Olympic Committee that year, and his rival at Yale, Bob Kiphuth, had been selected as coach of the Olympic swimming team...
...story goes, both Bingham and Hutter were upset, Bingham incensed, Hutter disappointed. And just before the relay race began, Hutter walked over to Kiphuth. Speaking in a mild but firm tone he told the Yale coach that someday he would prove to him that he had done the wrong thing, someday he would prove to him that he should have been on that team...
...soon those steel stands will be gone like the men who bought them, President Lowell, who finally approved their construction is gone; Bill Bingham who introduced them is gone; and the All-Americans who filled them are gone. Next year who Colgate, Washington, Davidson, and Springfield leave Dillon Field House, fitted our in their football togs they'll able to run through a gaping hole in the North end of the Stadium...
Within a year, the new boss had boosted sales to the point where the store was crowding its old quarters; Bingham added on buildings to double its floor space. Sales kept right on rising, until the San Francisco store pushed from sixth place to second, outsold only by The Emporium, which has twice as much floor space...