Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George R. Faxon, 43, proved to be a bitter shock to Boston: he is a teacher at the venerable Boston Latin School (cried the Herald: "Incredible!"). Was he a member of the Communist Party? Had he ever tried to recruit students for the party? Had he ever known FBI Undercover Man Herbert Philbrick? Said Faxon to all questions: "I decline to answer on the grounds it tends to incriminate...
...department at the Bronx High School of Science. Dr. Hlavaty was testifying because he had delivered a broadcast for the Voice in 1949. At that time, said he, he was not a Communist, nor is he one today. But was he one in 1948? And had he tried to recruit students to the party in that year? Teacher Hlavaty refused to answer...
...alumni did not really mind his emphasis on brains, but they heartily resented his neglect of brawn. He flatly refused to recruit athletes, forced the Denver Pioneer Club to stop talent-scouting for high-school stars, frowned on the weekly pep luncheons of the Quarterback Club. Annual attendance at football games fell from 110,000 to 50,000, and at one game hit a low of 3,500. Last year things got so bad that D.U. lost every one of its seven Mountain States Conference games...
...this way, the Houses clung to their passivity, the sometime-abortive zeal of a useless competition to recruit would...
Perkins is currently concerned about a possible imbalance in the House created by a lack of athletes. Some House members have gone so far as to suggest that he recruit a few House football players. "I might," he says with a nod towards Eliot House, "Finley's been getting away with it for years." Other than that, Perkins has no immediate plans. "I'll be content to just keep on trying to make big ones out of little ones," he says...