Word: pre-war
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When the Harvard Athletic Association went "big-time" and hired out the Boston Garden for a series of home basketball games, everyone benefited but the student fan. Charged sixty cents for admittance to games that were included in the price of a pre-war participation ticket, forced to travel across town and sit through whatever spectacle Garden authorities had rigged up to supplement Harvard basketball contests, the undergraduate partisan now finds himself isolated in the corners of the arena while the game goes on half-a-block and 15 pillars away...
...rates as a factor contributing to the financial problem, and points out that although "never in the country's history has the community been better able to support education and scientific research," tuition in many institutions in no higher than it was before the war. The maintenance of these pre-war rates, he has found, has been made possible "largely by making no increases or only small and tardy increases in the salaries of professors...
...percent increase above the 1940 scale for all three groups, a rise which be suggests be boosted to 75 percent within the next three years. "There is no prospect at the moment," he states, "that the cost of living in the immediate future will settle below 40 percent above pre-war...
...deal of promise and skill even though it has no outstanding stars. Among the men expected to be mainstays, only one, Dave Shepard, has played on the Varsity before, although both John Knowles and Milton Heath were on last years' informal group. The squad also possesses Adam Foster, with pre-war Freshman team experience; Parker Francis, a senior of considerable ability; and a promising sophomore, Bill wightman, son of Mrs. G. W. Wightman of tennis reknown...
With no lettermen from pre-war teams returning, Boston in building his squad almost from scratch and dolefully admits that "this year we are probably just going along for the ride." "If we win any of our major meets this year, I will be satisfied," year will give the boys lots of experience, and by next year we ought to have a hot outfit...