Word: programs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration also likes football for its money value. This one sport supports virtually all the others, varsity and intramurals alike, and keeps Harvard's fine "athletics for all" program alive. Without gate receipts at the Stadium, there would be no money to pay for wherries and shells or for squash and tennis courts. Therefore, the people who have to sign checks for upkeep and replacements on Harvard's colossal athletic plant want big names in the Stadium, for big names mean big crowds. There is one flaw in this line of reasoning, however: big name opponents will not draw...
...they are right. If we are to continue with the present philosophy of scheduling, we should play five-dollar football; if we cannot play five-dollar football, we should admit it and charge $1.80 for games with teams in our class. Harvard cannot attempt to pay for its athletic program with expensive football tickets unless it produces football worth that price of admission...
...current situation neither gains prestige nor pays for the athletic program. It is unfair to customers, players, and coaches...
...need not be corrected by a revision of Harvard's schedule, if some changes are made in the attitude towards athletes here. It must not be corrected by a program of athletic scholarships--that we believe most firmly has no place at Harvard. We can play respectable football by merely loosening the stranglehold that the Administration has on any move to give athletes an given chance. But the crucial concern right now is that no attempt to change the situation involve the firing of Arthur Valpey, who may not be the genius he was hailed as last year...
...Program Lacked...