Word: harvarder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Yale, which cannot be accused of "subsidizing" any more than Harvard, does both these things. A member of the Minneapolis Harvard Club told one of the authors this fall that the Yale Club of the same city could offer a prospective Yale student both a steady job and a room at one price during his four years in New Haven. This relatively small guarantee means a lot to a boy who is not sure just how far his finances will go towards paying for college, and who does not know how much college will cost him in toto...
...feel that the present football policy at Harvard is unsound, for both financial and prestige reasons. If the administration continues its present policies, we will merely continue to pile up $100,000 deficits and losses to powerhouse teams around the country...
...present football confusion. The first is to abandon all pretexts that we are a major college football team and play purely New England schools and one or two traditional rivals. The second is to take a positive attitude toward the game which supports all other athletics at Harvard, and do enough promotion work to at least produce a team which is halfway up the Ivy League scale...
Second, the H.A.A. should lower the ticket prices. It seems hardly a justifiable business practice to charge $4.20 or even $3.60 to see Harvard play an obviously poor football opponent. The quality of the football played should be reflected at least to some extent in the price of admission...