Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educators, clergymen, editors and officeholders, who sometimes falter but mean to lead...
...prevented them from playing at all. Yet Valpey had to use these semi-injured players because there was nobody else. Harvard had less depth, fewer able-bodied and capable men, than any of its 1949 opponents. When the first team got hurt, there just weren't any more players. Mean-while Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown. Columbia, Army and Cornell had two platoons...
...gate receipts at the Stadium, there would be no money to pay for wherries and shells or for squash and tennis courts. Therefore, the people who have to sign checks for upkeep and replacements on Harvard's colossal athletic plant want big names in the Stadium, for big names mean big crowds. There is one flaw in this line of reasoning, however: big name opponents will not draw big crowds as long as Harvard teams lose by large scores. This season's attendance records prove that decisively...
Harvard might well take a lead from Yale. It would not be "unclean" to assure an athlete of a job here. This would eliminate the necessity for any athletic scholarship, and would mean only that a man could earn some of his expenses...
Harvard could also, with a minimum of effort, guarantee athletes the same rent rating for four years. This would not mean free rooms; it would mean that a man could eliminate this one variable from his college budget and know just how much money would be needed beyond what he could earn in an outside...