Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes without saying that football conducted in this manner will not carry the financial burden of athletics as it now does. An endowment for athletics will therefore, be necessary. This last point is vital and inevitable, if football is to escape from the evils of overemphasis which now are manifest. So long as colleges depend upon gate receipts from football games to support their entire athletic program, this fact alone will remain a sufficient excuse for continuing the present unsatisfactory system...
...think the future of England is terribly insecure. Her financial burden would appear intolerable. She has to pay untold millions to the United States every year, whereas her allies are not paying their debts...
...merely to repeat Spark's old argument. Why, then, is it still given? And why does almost the entire Freshman class still take it? The obvious answer is that students do not order their precollege work correctly. But even so, are secondary schools never to assume their proper burden and really prepare boys for college? Certainly they never will so long as colleges consider it their duty to teach all the odds and ends of elementary subjects preparatory schools leave untaught...
...would also give preparatory and high schools sufficient time to make up deficiencies in these studies on the schedules of prospective Harvard Freshman entering in 1928 and thereafter. Moreover, such a procedure would lead the way in the much needed raising of secondary school standards, by throwing the burden of elementary preparation squarely where it belongs. For some small college to take such an arbitrary step would simply put that college outside the general scheme of things, educationally speaking. But Harvard is in a different position, and can lead the way where many other colleges will be glad to follow...
Saturday's game saw the last appearance of Robert T. Eisher as Head Coach of Harvard football. The student body suspected it, the team knew it, before the opening kick-off. Harvard took up its burden against Yale with the hope of rising to justify this man's trust...