Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Lynd does not pretend to have the blueprint in his own pocket, but he claims to know most of the questions and how to find the answers that would supply the blueprint's general plan. To start social scientists hunting for more meaningful answers, he proposed some "outrageous" working hypotheses. Samples...
...firm belief of the proponents of the plan that its advantages are such that Yale will soon come to adopt the game sort of sports set-up for the future. Until then, in the individual sports, the Harvard all-House teams will be at an advantage over the champion Yale House team and on close to an equal plane with these individual sports in which Yale has no House team, while in the team sports Harvard will be at a disadvantage in meeting the Eli soccer, lacrosse and rugby regular outfits and on the same plane in the others...
...first it might appear from this plan that minor sports coaches would have nothing to keep them at Harvard. It has already been mentioned that such coaches will have more work to do. This work will be dealing with a far larger body of men than heretofore and hence will be less directly influential. But if coaches can see the "sport for sport's sake" ideal of the plan, they will fit into their new niches in much the same manner, at least in the individual sports, as club professionals. Their tenure will be secure, and their indirect influence vastly...
...present sculling coach is an example of the coach of the new type, a year-round position, for which the plan calls. His name is as widely known in his sporting world as that of any competitive coach. And the champion games with Yale, with intensive coaching before them still continues the intercollegiate thrill for those deserving it. And finally, let it be remembered that athletics are moulded for the undergraduates, not for the coaches...
...recent voting of the House Associates plan on the part of the House-masters may be taken as another reason to prove the worth of an expansion in the House athletic program. One consideration, however, is worthy of more than passing note; that is, that every single upperclassman in College must be eligible for House competition as attached to some regular group. With this premise in mind, the Committee views with alarm the recent promulgation of the separate athletic scheme for out-of-House...