Word: intra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need for a permanent endowment policy. It is true that Harvard has climbed few of the stairs leading toward the goal of an endowment fund large enough to divorce the sports program from dependence on gate receipts. If minor sports are permanently to be retained, and if a successful intra-mural program is to be developed, President Conant must propagate with all his energies the endowment ideal among the alumni, and it is to be hoped that not a few benevolent philanthropists will be uncovered to put the plan on its feet...
Recent murmurings of the possibility of reducing, or raising, all unorganized sport to the same level of intra-mural athletics have aroused a great deal of comment. If such a change were proposed, certainly the undergraduate body should have a voice in the matter...
...remedy the proposal for intra-mural sports, to be arranged along the "informal but organized" lines which the Student Council has boosted in its recent recommendations for House athletics--seems to fit the needs of the case. And the hopeful proposal for more squash courts, with a compulsory athletic fee when enough have been obtained to supply the wants of all the students--though depending on a fairy godfather to furnish the capital-points in the right direction. For if the Harvard Law students of today are to stand the strain of holding down, the supreme court benches of tomorrow...
Specifically they are desirous that there be a paid secretary appointed by the H.A.A. to organize intra-mural sports for the Law School dormitories. It is expected that touch football teams and soft ball baseball teams will be organized among the Law School Halls, and among those outside the Halls...
...rink to be built on Soldiers Field. Figuring that gate receipts would pay for upkeep once the original costs were footed, the committee calls the advantages of such a rink obvious. It would allow longer and easier practices for the college teams. It would allow a full program of intra-mural hockey; it would provide for indoor track meets and would be used to house the increasing crowds that are coming to Cambridge to watch basketball...