Word: binghams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, eligibility for any team is denied a student who "receives ... financial support . . . primarily because of his ability as an athlete." Consequently, when Harvard's Athletic Director William J. Bingham last spring got a letter informing him of a "Bob Haley Fund." his eyes popped. J. Robert Haley of Winthrop, Mass. was captain of the Harvard football team...
...Carefully sniffish toward anything "practical," Yale let its single college course in public-speaking lapse last year, met protests by pleading economy. Last week the Yale News, whose lively undergraduate chairman is Jonathan Brewster Bingham, youngest of the seven sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...
...commuters center, will preside at the smoker and introduce as speakers James P. Baxter, Master of Adams House; Joseph R. Hamlen '04, member of the graduate committee in charge of the general operation of the Commuter Center; Alfred C. Hanford '17, Dean of Harvard College; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics; and Edward S. Amazeen '31, Graduate Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...Athletic Committee, which voted the decision, is headed by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, as Chairman, and includes as Faculty members Dean Hanford, Chester N. Greenough '98, professor of English, and Arlie V. Bock, Harry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene. Graduate members of the Committee are William Edmunds '00, George Whitney '07, and Charles C. Buell '23, himself a former captain and star quarterback of the Varsity...
...representing both Harvard and Yale, between whom was made the basic agreement which governs such cases. However, the Eligibility Rules state in another place that "final responsibility for the eligibility of individual members of athletic teams shall rest with the University concerned." It was for this reason that Bingham's Committee alone made the decision yesterday...