Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know a lot of people who are not exactly legitimate. But that don't mean I'm in bed with 'em, does it?") and does countless good deeds. After all, wasn't he supporting a boys' town in Italy, didn't he quietly give away thousands to charity every year, including some run by papers which damned him, and didn't he give a $5,000 bonus apiece to each of his nephews who went into the Army...
...tenements look alike. However, Mr. Oenslager has given his set four walls, one of which raises and lowers many times during the evening with all the unobtrusiveness and grace of a freight elevator. Like three or four of the characters, the fourth wall should be done away with. Give the audience a little credit, M. Kanin, Mr. Oenslager...
This is ridiculous. One non-scholarship student, a member of the Varsity first-string lineup for two years, puts it thus: "Why doesn't Harvard give athletes an even break?" Not athletic scholarships, mind you, nor lowered entrance requirements, nor easy courses: just an even break. The H.A.A. and the Student Employment Office will not guarantee a job--a real job, where you work for the money you get; and the Housing Office will not guarantee a room in the same price bracket throughout a man's college career. Neither of these steps can be called "subsidizing...
...some changes are made in the attitude towards athletes here. It must not be corrected by a program of athletic scholarships--that we believe most firmly has no place at Harvard. We can play respectable football by merely loosening the stranglehold that the Administration has on any move to give athletes an given chance. But the crucial concern right now is that no attempt to change the situation involve the firing of Arthur Valpey, who may not be the genius he was hailed as last year but who is certainly doing his best--and a definitely competent best--with what...