Word: hockey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Because the hockey season in recent years has tended to be so long and intensive the Ivy League colleges now by agreement try to limit their seasons to no more than 22 games in term plus four games during the Christmas recess. In our view lengthening the hockey schedule by two weeks of championship competition would be an undesirable extension of our season and would interfere more than we wish with the academic work of the squad...
...only extended as long as the recipient tries out for the college team. The UAC Committee does not condone the athletic scholarship, and agrees that Harvard's policy of unconditionally granting aid is superior. However, a few considerations must be made before the chastisement begins. First, Harvard teams, hockey and others, play teams, not only in the whole New England area, but in the immediate vicinity of Boston, that grant athletic scholarships. Second, there is a control over athletic scholarships at each Western college, exercised by the faculty committees at these institutions. . . Finally, it is to be remembered that Harvard...
...question of the position of the hockey player as a student in Western colleges, the UAC reported...
...standards, Denver is a third rate institution . . . , We only hope that Harvard is not indulging in intellectual snobbery, refusing to play an athletic contest with a team representing a school with a lower scholastic standard. We hope critics never have to resort to arguments such as: 'Sure those Western hockey players haven't flunked a course out there, but that's only because it's easy.' No university will stand being dictated to on educational standard least of all Harvard...
...circumstances of hockey in the Western League seem to us to be on the wrong track, involving generally the heavy recruiting of Canadian players, the use of athletic scholarships, and what appears to be an intensive effort to develop a big-time, commercially successful sport. . . These circumstances, pressing college sports on toward commercialism in aim and professionalism in spirit, are quite precisely the circumstances that the Ivy League colleges have banded together to avoid...