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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this has resulted in a $326,000 deficit. Now, according to the AP story, the University's "athletics are going to be put on a footing similar to its educational activities. That, Bingham hopes, will in time ease up the overpowering pressure for big games, big victories, and big gate receipts...
...honors Governor Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the College's founders. Reached by stone steps starting between Wiggles worth A entry and Lamont, the memorial also consists of two semi-circular stone sists of two semi-circular stone benches benches located behind the Class of 1680 Gate on Massachusetts Avenue...
Whitman's football temperature had come to fever pitch a fortnight ago after the game with little College of Idaho (enrollment 495). As usual, Whitman lost (31-19). But what really stung Graduate Manager Frederic Santler was the gate receipts-only 158 paid admissions. For the season, Whitman had not only lost six out of eight games; it had also gone $4,000 into the red. Cried Manager Santler: "This marks the beginning of the end for Whitman . . . in intercollegiate athletics...
...Administration also likes football for its money value. This one sport supports virtually all the others, varsity and intramurals alike, and keeps Harvard's fine "athletics for all" program alive. Without gate receipts at the Stadium, there would be no money to pay for wherries and shells or for squash and tennis courts. Therefore, the people who have to sign checks for upkeep and replacements on Harvard's colossal athletic plant want big names in the Stadium, for big names mean big crowds. There is one flaw in this line of reasoning, however: big name opponents will not draw...
...character): "If I live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which has an all-colored cast, is laid in the region of a Firbankian Haiti. It tells how members of a backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly...