Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council's logic, there is no reason, other than financial, for retaining major sports teams if minor are scrapped. And why retain the major sports that are not self-supporting? The fact that tennis and squash are classed as minor is scarcely a condemnation--or is it? Interest in them is just as high as in any major sport...
Terbert H. Macdonald '40, captain elect of the football squad expressed the feelings of several athletic leaders when he declared that the Council's plan would "kill out interest in a lot of minor sports here at Harvard." He also mentioned the coaching angle (which proved to be a popular rallying point for opponents of the plan) and said that it would be impossible for a coach to spread his time over a group of House teams and do as good a job as he would on but one intercollegiate squad...
...commemorating the services to the law of the late Elihu Root, was made possible by gifts from Mr. Stimson, the Harvard Law School Association, and the Law School Class of 1913. Designed as an informal reading room for students, the Root Room contains current magazines, current government publications of interest to lawyers, and books of biography, history, government, and fiction, and other volumes giving general background...
After the original deluge of student interest had been organized into well-charted panel discussions, the next day saw the whole conference reconvened in the new debutanted Littauer auditorium where there followed a tidal wave of voluble riot and disorganized debate. In vain did the group mentality strive to find the fruits of its previous well-ordered labor mirrored in the stormy session that questioned deficit finance, public spending, and even the protagonists' intentions. Roberts' rules were not enough to resist the tide of debate. Two chairmen substituted for each other as arbitrary Noah's Arks, and yet the debate...
Flexibility in any athletic program is essential, as college interest in the world of sport rises and wanes at no predictable times and along no predictable lines. A few present hardships, however, must not be permitted to interfere with general good on a broad basis. The plan, it is believed, will form the second step, with the inauguration of the endowment plan considered as the first, toward "athletics for all" at Harvard...