Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Now look at Yale. With a squad of approximately the same size, 21 states are represented. More important, with the exception of Connecticut no single state has more than five representatives, while nine send more than one apiece.
If Harvard is going to get back on an equal basis with the above-named schools, it is clear that our alumni are going to have to do something a little more concrete than complaining.
Still, big name opponents that beat us badly draw more people than little schools which we can beat. So the people who sign the checks continue to want big name opponents.
Yale, which cannot be accused of "subsidizing" any more than Harvard, does both these things. A member of the Minneapolis Harvard Club told one of the authors this fall that the Yale Club of the same city could offer a prospective Yale student both a steady job and a room...
We don't believe that anybody wants Harvard to go big time. Harvard doesn't need the kind of reputation that goes with beating Michigan and NorthCarolina--it already has an academic reputation, which is far more valuable.