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University veterans, threatened with no G. I. Bill payments until late January, were assured yesterday by General William J. Blaik '13, regional manager of the Boston Veterans Administration Office, that checks would be out sometime during the next three weeks. But University officials termed the statement "optimistic...
...Blaik said that he has increased his staff, which had been cut in half, to hasten the processing of the veterans' applications. He says he will be able to complete work on the 24,000 applications made by college veterans in Greater Boston within the next three weeks. Since Harvard begins classes later than most colleges in the area, applications from students here will be taken up last...
...Blaik's informal talk at Leone's Restaurant in Manhattan-which brought out more cameramen and curious sidewalk neck-craners than usually attend a motion-picture première-was, in many ways, a restrained and gentlemanly performance. The coach, a West Pointer ('20) himself, made no attempt to play on the emotions of his audience. He spoke sadly of the cadets' mistakes, but defended their characters and pleaded that they be allowed to leave the Academy with their reputations unbesmirched...
Then, without breaking stride, Blaik reversed his field. He went on to defend Big Football, the very influence which-by his own words-had done most to cause the cribbers to violate the honor system. Army football players, he said earlier, were "unbelievably fatigued" after hours of practice on the gridiron, and had to face the iron scholastic schedules of the Academy. Their high morale might, he suggested, have caused them to put success of the team above the reputation of the cadet corps. If he had been speaking solely as a professional coach, defending his way of life, this...
...anyone at the Academy disagreed with him, or had any plan for solving the problem by eliminating one cause, he did not say so. The commandant, General Frederick A. Irving, announced that he was delighted that Coach Blaik, who is famous for working his men to the limits of endurance, had decided to stay on. Nobody else in authority showed any sign that anything but the punishment of the 90 was contemplated...