Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time college sports. There are athletic power houses here like Southern California, which it is hard to imagine Harvard playing in any sport, especially one so basic as baseball. Scouts from every major-league team are scattered through the box seats filling out elaborate form charts for each game...
Even with the Eastern win, Harvard's chances of playing in an NCAA title game looked dim. The District I Playoffs were during examination period, and the Administrative Board does not normally find baseball games a good excuse for missing a final...
...first, the world war did not leave the nation bereft of more personal social issues. On the last day of October, Harvard upset Princeton, a school Cambridge men scorned because it still refused to admit Negroes, by a 19-14 score. During the game Boston police confiscated all issues of the Massachusetts Free Press, which Harvard students were distributing outside the Stadium. The Press supported the impending state referendum legalizing the dispensation of birth control information by doctors. Boston's finest ended the effort because, as they explained, "someone would have to come and pick up all the pamphlets that...
...gloom couldn't be put out of mind. Some two weeks before the Princeton game, President Roosevelt, in a Fireside Chat, announced that he would shortly ask Congress to lower the draft age to 18. Several days before that, James Conant called for the "conversion" of Harvard to war-time status. According to his plan, soon to be adopted in modified form, Harvard and the other Ivy schools would cease providing "college" educations altogether, and devote themselves exclusively to training local high school graduates for Army and Navy duty...
...Painting in France 1900-1967, the current exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which brings together a terribly impressive roster of painters who have worked in France during this century. With the peculiar arrogance of the French, everyone who has painted within her borders is fair game for the show and just about every major European painter of the century is included. And with the peculiar canniness of the French, they are right. Somehow France is the place where people go to escape, to change, to be alone, or to find community...