Word: key
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Key's efforts have not gone unnoticed. Other colleges have praised the new society: the Dartmouth football manager wrote that his team "had never been taken care of so well...
...Key's big job, of course, was taking care of visiting athletes. With only a few exceptions, such as local teams, representatives met every athletic squad that has played at Harvard this year, including ones that showed up at 7 a.m. A Key member would pick the team up at the railroad station and stay with it as long as he was needed, supplying maps, nickles for phone calls, and sometimes even dates for the visitors...
...manager of each visiting team gets an elaborate questionnaire from the Key about two weeks before the game that asks about the players' whims and wishes, covering almost all things except perhaps whether they prefer whiskey...
...Key's work is not confined to mothering Freshmen and welcoming athletes. Its non-athletic committee attends to a variety of other University visitors. Even Elis qualify; over the Yale Weekend, the Key set up an elaborate information bureau in Wadsworth House to help the confused...
Besides this, members of the Key make up a volunteer guide brigade to show the University to visiting functionaries, who this year have ranged from a Brazilian radio commentator to the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand...