Word: fox
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...rawboned Sac-and-Fox Indian from the flatlands of Oklahoma who was blessed with an incandescent athletic prowess that placed him in the halls of fame of three major fields of sport: college football, pro football and track and field. When Jim Thorpe won the pentathlon and the decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustav V, presenting the gold medals, proclaimed him "the finest athlete in the world." Said Thorpe in response: "Thanks, King." Six months later the medals were taken back and his feats expunged from the record books when it was discovered...
Rosotsky voluntarily informed York of the specific action taken on the case despite the contention of Lewis and John B Fox '59, dean of the College, that students be told only whether their allegations were lound to have merit...
Last week, Fox could have done himself a favor by responding to the content of the chapter on Harvard rather than reiterating his skepticism about research techniques. The guide gives a fairly bland summary of life on the Charles, portraying the administration as removed but not unsympathetic to minorities in particular. "Some tensions" over race matters seems to be on target. For example, many Blacks' remain resentful over the decision not to form a separate third world center, and some Black varsity athletes have complained recently about tacit racism on the part of several coaches...
Otherwise, the review of Harvard describes an imposing multifaceted, exciting school, Fox could have easily underscored positive points and accepted the negative ones as criticism he has heard before and should be acting...
...Among Fox's jabs at the guide, his pointing out that the book ignores the race relations Foundation stands out as the most ironic. Indeed, the Harvard chapter makes no reference to the embryonic agency and implies incorrectly that students are still actively planning a central third world cultural organization. But College administrators themselves relegated the Foundation to a three-sentence passage in a six-page descriptive letter they sent to the Brown group, according to an official here and the Brown professor who oversaw the writing of the guide. If University Hall wants to push the Foundation, why didn...