Word: harvard
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...adjustments from high school football and will be ready to move on to the varsity next year. Naturally eleven games are still not enough, but the scheduling difficulties in an area like Boston are understandable; with the exception of Boston College, area schools will not or cannot play Harvard. Prep schools and academies, such as Exeter and Milford, make up the bulk of the 'B' schedule...
...Weatherman incidents in Chicago comes in the final paragraph. Short knows that the instant revolution of Weathermen and other such groups is merely an extension of their oedipal urge to kill the repressive father. As Short wings away from riot-torn central Chicago to the relative security of the Harvard womb, he recalls how he used "to sit every morning when I was 14 years old in a big gothie chapel dreaming of machine-gunning the headmaster and deacons when they walked out the front door." So Chicago must burn because John G. Short hated mandatory chapel at his prep...
There are too many 14 year olds at Harvard...
...article by John Powers ("Powers of the Press") in the CRIMSON of November 12 deserves some comment in regard to freshman football. The freshman program at Harvard is designed to give all candidates an opportunity to play. The long-range aim is to provide players for the varsity level. Each year Harvard attracts some of the best high school talent in the country, but high school talent is not always adequate for collegiate programs. The coaching staff which numbers seven, not four, has done as competent a job as possible under the circumstances in acquainting these players with the Harvard...
...shame of Harvard freshman football. if one may call it that, is the lack of the common "cut." No one is cut from the squad at any time. The final decision to continue playing or not rests with the individual player. As a result only those who want to play will remain. In most cases these are the football-players, not the temporary stars...