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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was reopened Wednesday when it was learned that the Ivy colleges will soon announce a new tightly-knit League calling for each member to play a complete seven game Ivy schedule. It is known that League independence was needed before the schools dare break with the Association. Once they have their own league and can count on seven games a complete separation seems possible...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Bushnell Doubts NCAA Would Apply Force on Ivy | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

...League attempt to create a closely knit football league may well be the second step toward an eventual break with the National Collegiate Athletic Association...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Ivy League Football Teams to Play Seven Intra-League Games in 1956 | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

...clear that any break with the powerful NCAA, whether partial or complete, could not take place unless there was a tightly knit Ivy Group that could withstand a possible NCAA boycott...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Ivy League Football Teams to Play Seven Intra-League Games in 1956 | 10/29/1953 | See Source »

...Lowell's major achievement was not in providing for a student's academic activities; it was Lowell who pushed through the House system that knit undergraduate Harvard into a social whole. Before the houses, there was tremendous difference between the wealthy and the poor, the prep school and the high school alumni. Students on the Gold Coast kept valets; those living in the Yard stoked furnaces...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Powerful Presidents Guard Liberal Tradition | 10/13/1953 | See Source »

...seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies may knit with muted needles, but there is not another sound until the record is ended. While the music is on, Kinsey eyes his guests to see whether they catch the nuances of a fine performance. Between numbers, and at a sherbet and cake intermission, there is no idle chatter-only the point-counterpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. KINSEY of BLOOMINGTON | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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