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Austin, Texas, November 5--A proposal that Harvard play the University of Texas in a post-season game for charity here will be presented to University officials tomorrow by Charles B. Cook, president of the Austia Chamber of Commerce. This suggestion is an outgrowth of a plan sponsored by five Austin civic organizations to arrange for an opponent for Texas in a charity game. Mr. Cook stated that Harvard was desirable since he felt that the Crimson would draw the largest crowd...
Hamilton Fish, Jr. '10, Representative in Congress from the twenty-sixth district of New York, urges a post-season charity game with Princeton in a letter to the CRIMSON yesterday. Fish was captain of the University football team and an all-American tackle. His letter reported earlier in Associated Press dispatches, but not received until yesterday afternoon, follows...
...reason for writing you is to urge the CRIMSON, if in accord with its policy, to come out openly for a post-season game with Princeton, the proceeds to be distributed to the unemployed relief fund. Unemployment is the chief issue in the United States today, and there is no reason why Harvard University should stand aloof and hide behind some technicality as a reason for not joining every other large university in permitting their teams to compete in post-season games for the unemployment fund, as suggested by Owen D. Young, Chairman of President Hoover's Committee on Relief...
...object and point out that such a duty is not within their province. They can, however, refuse to comply with the suggested methods for raising money if these methods contradict their educational policy. Harvard has done this thing in refusing to allow its football team to play in any post-season charity game...
...economics of charity games as such is open to severe criticism of a practical sort. No matter how worthy the cause, it is doubtful wisdom to place responsibility on educational institutions whose duty to the state certainly is not financial. There are indications that the attraction of post-season football games is declining. It is possible that the funds raised by charity games may be so inconsiderable that the resultant psychological effect will offset the benefits derived from the money. There will be inevitable regional variations in response to this method of indirect taxation. In sections most seriously affected...