Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is the problem of Pennsylvania, Bingham is entitled to his opinion that Penn subsidizes football by scholarships, and I am not sure he is wrong; but it was a poor idea to bring this up now. For one thing, Harvard has not played Penn since 1942, so why bother discussing it at all? For another, Bingham should have realized that even if he was speaking as a private individual his position as head of the HAA implies that this is the official University opinion on Pennsylvania...
After such a poor season as 1949, and when the local press is running story after story on "what to do about Harvard football," no responsible official should say anything until the hysteria dies down. The next football season doesn't begin until September 1. Nor should such an official say anything only two days after the papers have run screamer headlines, true or untrue, on a player revolt...
Benjamin W. Fink, chief engineer of the Parks Division of the Metropolitan District Commission and supervisor of the project, reported that "near Boston, the day-to-night temperature drop is sufficient to change poor skiing to good skiing and with the shortness of the season in mind we thought the investment highly worth making...
...feel that Bingham has every right to criticize the conduct of varsity athletes who break training, but we also feel that he selected a very poor time to castigate the players. He has needlessly antagonized large numbers of squad members. Late November is a peculiar time to call erring football players on the carpet...
...reacting to danger (real or imagined) may express himself in three ways: anger, anxiety or fear. Anger and fear find outlets in fight and flight, but anxiety is a painful in-between that allows neither fight nor flight. The anxious man suffers poor circulation, especially at the extremities ("cold feet"), his muscles are "all tightened up," his breathing is likely to become fast and shallow...