Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddsmakers base their choice of Princeton on two things--the Tigers' surprising tie game with Colgate Saturday, and the Crimson's 2-3 record. The former shows that Princeton has depth and a good line; the latter is apt to be very deceiving. This is a good Harvard football team, and the feeling among its followers is, that starting Saturday the balance of power in the Big Three will start to shift north. Whether it stops in Connecticut or Massachusetts would be decided November...
...committee does plan a careful survey of the freshman and sophomore program. Under the distribution program adopted in 1947, freshmen must take courses in the four fields of social sciences, natural sciences, art and literature, and history, philosophy, and religion. At sophomores the latter fields are condensed under the humanities. This broad training closely resembles Harvard's General education program without...
...prime reasons for the present state of affairs. I think the answer can be stated: McCarthy. In 1952 Joe McCarthy was a tremendous Democratic problem. In 1954 Joe McCarthy is a tremendous Republican problem. Whereas the Democrats were unable to steal the anti-Commie ball from the Republicans, the latter seem to have kicked it around until they have lost...
...fans (if it rains) or 15,000 (if it doesn't) will see Jerry Marsh at quarterback, Bob Cowies at wingback, and sophomores Tony Gianelly at full back and Matt Botsford at tailback. Jim Joslin is also expected to see a good deal of action at the latter position...
...Connor's prose is most interesting. Sometimes it seems to hover between a clinched thought and a profundity, and then lights invariably on the latter's side. There are many trite lines in his exposition, but he uses them to advantage, and they seem to enhance rather than detract from a description. It is unwise to think that he is consciously striving for an idiom, because his range of character cannot be so confined. Perhaps the best that can be said of this prose is that it is intriguing. It is also wonderfully readable...