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...simple perusal of squad lists will reveal some significant facts about Harvard in relation to its three biggest rivals. In the first place, the sons of the old grads aren't staffing Crimson football teams any more. On this year's squad seven men on the first three teams are prep school graduates, although 40 percent of the college is still composed of private school students...
...attitude of the University in this whole matter is remarkable. Harvard's top officials are perfectly aware that, whether they like it or not, football has come to be the public identification tag on American universities. Harvard put football on a big-time basis--with the first high-pressure coach, the first big stadium, the first "big game"--and now tht other schools have developed this technique far beyond us, Harvard cannot escape at least some of the consequences...
This is ridiculous. One non-scholarship student, a member of the Varsity first-string lineup for two years, puts it thus: "Why doesn't Harvard give athletes an even break?" Not athletic scholarships, mind you, nor lowered entrance requirements, nor easy courses: just an even break. The H.A.A. and the Student Employment Office will not guarantee a job--a real job, where you work for the money you get; and the Housing Office will not guarantee a room in the same price bracket throughout a man's college career. Neither of these steps can be called "subsidizing...
...price during his four years in New Haven. This relatively small guarantee means a lot to a boy who is not sure just how far his finances will go towards paying for college, and who does not know how much college will cost him in toto in the first place. Neither of these aids include any provisions that force a man to play football...
There seem to be two solutions to the present football confusion. The first is to abandon all pretexts that we are a major college football team and play purely New England schools and one or two traditional rivals. The second is to take a positive attitude toward the game which supports all other athletics at Harvard, and do enough promotion work to at least produce a team which is halfway up the Ivy League scale...