Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that the Committee was not thinking in terms of suppression does not mean that political considerations were not involved. The point is that before the war The New Student would have been chartered without question, whereas after the war it was closely scrutinized and finally refused recognition. The reason for this change is the cold war, which has lead to a determination on the part of the Dean's Office that outside political groups must not use the Harvard name and Harvard organizations as fronts for their activities...
...agree that our schedule is now too severe, but that is no reason to lose all six Ivy League games, and to win from Holy Cross (by a close score) which was defeated by Boston College, 76-0, and which in turn was beaten by Oklahoma...
Powerful, easygoing Pancho, who played mostly by ear when he was ruling the amateurs at Forest Hills, was learning the scales the hard way as a pro. But there was no reason to think the younger man could not learn by experience. At week's end in Richmond, Va. he finally took one from the old master...
...greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York Yankees, e.g., Shortstop Phil Rizzuto or Relief Pitcher Joe Page. One reason: the voting took place a few days before the end of the season, before the collapse of the Red Sox and Slugger Williams in their final series with the Yankees...
...Album is hastening to join the '47-'48 Album in the better-late-than-never department, the '49 Album, a veritable tyro in the field, has announced a tentative publication date of April 1, 1950. April Fool's Day being what it is, however, there is no reason to expect any new speed records in Album production...