Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration decides to continue its hyper-hands-off football policy, then certain things must be done. First, we should play only the three traditional Ivy rivals, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, and pad the rest of the schedule with Amherst, Connecticut, and N.Y.U. Under this system we could easily achieve a season record which could always be better than .500. Unfortunately, since Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale are already out beating the bushes for young football players, we suspect that our traditional rivals will win about 75% of those games...
...first thing they can do is interest boys from their own localities in coming to Harvard. It is doubtful whether this can be counted on to produce results if it remains unorganized, of course. Some systematic plan will have to be undertaken to pull bright athletes out of the bushes and send them here...
...morally justifiable to charge upwards of five dollars admission to see Harvard get walloped by a series of "big name" opponents. The Alumni, of course, are the first to shout cheat about this, and here they are right. If we are to continue with the present philosophy of scheduling, we should play five-dollar football; if we cannot play five-dollar football, we should admit it and charge $1.80 for games with teams in our class. Harvard cannot attempt to pay for its athletic program with expensive football tickets unless it produces football worth that price of admission...
...from public service Wednesday, while not exactly unexpected, was an unhappy event. No man has given more of his time, energy, health, and peace of mind to his country than the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He left a luerative private practice in the early thirties to serve first on the Wisconsin Public Utilities Commission, then as Director of the TVA, and finally as AEC head. At no time has his salary approached a just renumeration for his services...
...Williams, the Red Sox's slugging outfielder, was voted 1949's most valuable American League player for the first time in his career yesterday by an unofficial committee of baseball writers...