Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite outdoor sport was chamois hunting in the mountains hovering over the city-where the game poacher has always been a highly respected member of society, and where one of Austria's most important bits of national philosophy originated: Warst net au fig'stie g'n - warst net abag'fall'n (If you hadn't climbed up you wouldn't have fallen down...
Sakamoto's ditch-wrigglers did all right. Led by the Nisei NaKama brothers, they won the A.A.U. outdoor team championships in 1939 and 1940. Sakamoto was gunning for the 1940 Olympics, but they were called off. In 1941, before war dispersed them, Sakamoto's protégés won their third outdoor A.A.U. title; and one of them, Bill Smith, son of a Honolulu cop, broke most of the world's records from 200 to 800 meters...
Applications by the spontaneously-formed group for the Dean's consent to use the outdoor rallying place began a week ago and culminated in a formal petition by the whole committee, in person, on Tuesday. Seldom has a group been composed of students more serious in intention or more responsible as heads of various student activities. Seldom has an issue been more important or less controversial in the University community than question of price control. The committee's object was simply to bring out into the open, for the benefit of legislators in Washington, a concrete expression of the latent...
...their name the recent action of Assistant Dean Charles W. Duhig in refusing permission to the Committee to hold a student rally within the Harvard Yard on the subject of O.P.A. According to Mr. Duhig, his action reflects the present policy of the University, which is opposed to any outdoor student meetings on University property. We are of the confirmed opinion that such a policy is inconsistent with the democratic traditions of Harvard and our nation. The only reason advanced by Mr. Duhig as a basis for this policy was that the University feared that any such meeting would inevitably...
...policy so that what is now the exception becomes the rule, and that some person or persons in authority-and present at the University-have the power to administer that policy to the end that students at Harvard may, in the future, have the opportunity to hold orderly outdoor meetings on University property whenever the occasion warrants such activity. Stanley Geller '40 Chairman, Harvard Committee to Save O.P.A...