Word: majored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seem to be two solutions to the present football confusion. The first is to abandon all pretexts that we are a major college football team and play purely New England schools and one or two traditional rivals. The second is to take a positive attitude toward the game which supports all other athletics at Harvard, and do enough promotion work to at least produce a team which is halfway up the Ivy League scale...
Perhaps the University attitude toward the theater (if it has an attitude) reflects both Harvard's Puritanical beginning and the prevalent American attitude. As this is the only major university in the country without a theater, so is the United States the only civilized country in the world without a national theater...
Although basketball is the major winter sport, there will also be Yard boxing, swimming, wrestling, and fencing tournaments in February and March. The winners will receive no medals, but they will add points to their dormitories all-year scores...
...Pennsylvania Railroad was making up for lost time. Though it was one of the last major U.S. railroads to dieselize, it was finally retiring steam locomotives at a fast clip and stepping up its purchase of diesel-electric equipment. Last week it took its biggest step yet: it ordered 226 locomotives, costing some $38 million, from six manufacturers.* The new order will give Pennsy the largest number of diesel locomotives (820) of any U.S. railroad...
...latest production, "The Guardsman," the Brattle Theater Company is relying for the first time on its own resident actors to carry all the major roles. That they can do it successfully should come as no surprise to regular patrons, particularly when the leading roles are handled by such skillful people as Jan Farrand and Robert Fletcher...