Word: footings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William L. Curwen of Winthrop House --Chairman, Winthrop House Committee, Varsity crew, '48, '49. William Lewis Alden of Leverett House--Founder, First President of Veritas (now Ivy) Films, Co-producer of "A Touch of the Times," Leverett House Committee, House foot-ball team '46, '47, '48, House swimming team '46, House track team '48, HYRC '47, HYC '46, Collector in D.P. Student drive, European Food Relief, Harvard Combined Charities. James F. Hornig of Winthrop House--Freshman Union Committee, Vice Chairman of Student Council Special Committee on Education, Co-author of the Committee's report: Harvard Education 1948, The Student...
...outlined briefly the objectives of his 1949 spring practice, to wit: (1.) to make the acquaintance of and catalogue the new men (freshmen, jayvees, and transfer students) out for varsity foot-ball, and (2.) to experiment with the varsity players on new cycles of plays. "It was a good spring practice," said head coach Valpey...
...among the '52 football players at this time is right end Fred Ravreby. Six foot three inch Ravreby spent the winter knocking people out of the boxing room and then started out the spring practice as a tackle. The sudden dearth, however, of right ends, plus Ravreby height and speed caused the switch to end, and here he will probably remain this fall. If he continues to improve, Fred Ravreby is the best bet among the freshmen to make the 1949 football squad...
...Greene to Omar Bradley, include several that few readers ever heard of, e.g., Indian Fighter Richard Mentor Johnson and Grant's divisional commander, James Harrison Wilson. Each, says Pratt, operated on the simple basis that "nobody is going to win a battle until somebody goes in there on foot and wins it with a hand...
Readers who know that it takes ships, planes, artillery and service troops to get the infantryman within range of a live target, may feel that Pratt has cheered the role of the foot soldier to the point of oversimplification. Actually he takes nothing away from the other arms; his peep-sight view merely assumes that their work had already been done. None of these sketches is exhaustive, but every one is readable, informal history that few armchair tacticians would wish to miss and few professional soldiers could fail to learn from. What will keep Eleven Generals and many a plain...