Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman replied, at his press conference, that hardly a week goes by that that very matter is not brought up at the U.N., at his suggestion. As for the Vandenberg proposal: he didn't think it necessary or advisable. Two hours later, broad-shouldered Brien McMahon of Connecticut rose to speak in the Senate. No scientist (he was a wealthy trial lawyer, and a New Deal officeholder before being elected to the Senate), he had been shocked into grave concern during long, secret sessions of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy over which he had presided...
...plans of Harvard College to "de-emphasize" football (although I am curious to learn how it had been "emphasized" in the last few years). And on yesterday, they carried the story that Art Valpey had resigned his coaching position at Harvard to take another at the University of Connecticut. Although I have not bad the opportunity to poll the alumni in this area, I am certain that the majority received both reports with a great deal of disappointment, as well as resentment...
...lucky enough to be Arthur Valpey's friends during his two years here are firmly convinced both of his coaching ability and of his warmth and integrity as a man. We are sorry to see him leave, although his decision looks like a wise one professionally. The University of Connecticut has chosen an excellent new head coach...
...Valpey's decision to leave Cambridge makes painfully clear the confusion of Harvard's athletic program. The fact that a man might even consider leaving a school with the prestige and rank of Harvard to coach at Connecticut ought to drive home the unpleasant fact that we have no athletic policy as any level in Cambridge. There is no need for Harvard to go professional in its athletics; but to disregard completely the forces which are acting on intercollegiate athletics is to be guilty of self-inflicted blindness...
Provest Buck yesterday submitted his report on athletics to the Corporation. That austere body would do well to act quickly on it, for it is our opinion that lack of policy direction more than anything else moved Valpey to accept Connecticut's offer. One cannot censure any man for leaving a college which has exhibited such deeprooted and persistent disregard for its athletic program...