Word: grads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following instructions, Junius talked to Old Grad Poppe again. Poppe told Junius what to do against De Paul: miss baskets, slow down the game, "but don't stink it up." Junius was too jittery to play very long. Manhattan Coach Ken Norton had to take him out. But his substitute had a great night, sank eight baskets in eight tries. To the distress of gamblers betting on a sure thing, Manhattan upset De Paul...
...gamblers' distress was just beginning. Later the same night, the police picked up Old Grad Poppe. The story that Poppe told stole the basketball headlines last week: Co-Captain Poppe, working with his teammate, Co-Captain John A. Byrnes, had helped to throw three Manhattan games last year (against Bradley, Siena, and Santa Clara); each co-captain had collected $5,000 for his cooperation, plus a $40-a-week salary...
...GSAS, very little change is expected next year from this semester's enrollment of 1727. Dean Rogers said that the likelihood of deferment is greater in the GSAS than in all other grad schools except the Medical School. Rogers has written deferment letters for 174 students, and only three of these men have been called...
Maybe this year's freshmen need inspiration; perhaps the new generation of yard dwellers is more conservative, or are just not impressed by a big show. At any rate, should an old grad wander into the Union this week he might wonder whether a Smoker campaign was going on, or the men of '54 were merely advertising for a baby parade...
...grad might suspect that the men of '54 have acquired that "Harvard indifference" a little prematurely, if he had heard one small freshman ask, wide-eyed, "What is this Smoker...