Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Harvard and Central Square shopping districts are heeding Horace Greeley's advice "Go West" in a current campaign for new retail markets...
...about "bringing the team up for the games." In these days of two platoon football, they just don't go out and "win one for the Gipper" any more. It is far more important to hire a sound football coach than one who can sound like Pat O'Brien in the locker room between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will...
Once again we are back to the problems of weak personnel. Most good football players just don't go to Harvard...
These distinguished members of the company of educated men feel that their Harvard diplomas qualify them as expert football critics. Consequently they come with a flask on Saturday afternoons and spend two hours impressing their wives by second-guessing the quarterback. Then they go to a cocktail party and slander the coach. Then they go home and sleep it off. And that...
...they expect Harvard to go out and beat Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton, all of whom have vigorous alumni who do more than talk...