Word: mural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that will lead Harvard over the deep and horrid chasm in whose gloomy depths so many other colleges lie groaning. President Conant's demand for an endowment fund started the bridge from one side and the Council has laid the foundations from the other--only by a strong intra-mural program, self-sufficing and self-supporting, can athletics be rigorously bent to meet the needs of every student and the chasm successfully avoided...
...self-sufficing, individuality was to develop naturally, and each House was to foster and perfect an internal organization to replace the class, fraternity, and 150 pound teams that then existed. The H.A.A. was specifically told to mind its own business and leave the pure and virginal field of intra-mural sports under the loving care of the House masters, unsullied by the horny commercialism of Quincy Street officials...
...those who are close to the matter know that the advisability of striking changes is being considered in all quarters. The present situation, as demonstrated of this fall, was far from ideal. Prospects for an improvement in the next few years look increasingly dark. By dealing with intra-mural athletics the Committee seems, perhaps, to side-step the more pressing problem of big time Varsity football, but a second's thought will show how inextricably tied up the question of House, or intra-mural, athletics is with the rest of the program. Gate receipts, gate receipts, and receipts again spell...
...receipts this fall, and by last year's curtailment of minor sports, the hypocrisy and bad feeling which professionalism imposes and its resulting wear and tear on nerves and morals has given rise to much thought on possible alternatives or modifications of the present intercollegiate set up. The intra-mural scheme is one of these alternatives and it is this system which is up for consideration today. Does it work? Should it work better? Is there another system which would solve the problem more satisfactorily? Is it the logical solution of the conflict between gate receipts and a full athletic...
...answer to the great fuss which has been stirred up about big time athletic competition, particularly football. The accusations, the organization and the values it involves will probably leave their mark on the American educational system for some time to come. Even though a more fully developed intra-mural system seems, one of the most promising solutions yet tried, the status quo is firmly entrenched. Whatever the solution one aspect of the question, is today before the student body: as Harvard was the first to build a vast stadium with its money guzzling and money producing propensities, let us hope...