Word: givings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University coaches will attend, and give a short talk at the rally, while all the members of the first year team will be present. All Freshman should attend, as it will be their best chance to support the team before the most important game of its season...
...well undergo a certain amount of chest expansion at the news that one of their chance shots at improving the existent system of college athletics, has taken effect. Massachusetts Agricultural College is the proving ground: the goat is basketball, or possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport...
Beyond doubt, then, this experiment is being entered upon seriously. It is, moreover, going to get the fairest possible trial, for a tradition of victory and a small college especially intent on this sport are helpful auguries to prove the contentions of the give-the-game-back-to-the-boys columnists. This one opening, however--and its success is still far from certain--can mean little in such a campaign. Ten thousand alumni basketball teams assemble annually to battle ten thousand school teams. Hockey and football, more dependent on carefully pre-outlined systems of attack and defence; track and crew...
...latter, this week is doubly remarkable. It is distinguished by the appearance of the Smallman Choir, under the patronage of Mrs. Coolidge, who has often before been the benefactress of Harvard in musical affairs. It is further noteworthy for the announcement that Mr. Arthur Whiting will give a series of concerts of chamber music this winter. Those who have followed in past years the Whiting concerts realize their importance. The men who will be introduced to them this winter will soon understand both the sorrow which met the announcement a year ago that 1928-1929 was to be their final...
...those who sport license plates of dashing colors the thought of registration and insurance is the last straw. That such an accumulation of gargantuan expenses should be presented at one fell swoop is inexcusable. Does it mean that Harvard undergraduates will have to follow those of Princeton and give up their automobiles entirely, or will University Hall or Brattle Square devise some even more devilish solution...