Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William J. Bingham made a statement Wednesday afternoon. No one but Jack Durant of the Associated Press knows exactly what he said, but everybody knows he shouldn't have said...
When asked about atomic energy, Mr. Arbuthnot, Frank Sullivan's cliche expert, said "humanity is at the crossroads." The AEC's next chairman had better be prepared to direct a lot of traffic...
...story, as most of the local press played it, was either completely inaccurate or misleading. For one thing; Bingham said Harvard was giving up "big-time" football. What is "big-time" football? He implied the football team would continue to play traditional Ivy League opponents. Six of Harvard's nine opponents are traditional rivals. Of the other three, everyone knew Stanford was only a home-and-home arrangement, and the Army contract runs until 1951. Holy Cross is hardly "big-time" in 1949. So what did Bingham accomplish by announcing Harvard would cease to he "big-time?" Precisely nothing...
...Yale has not eliminated the Big Three," Tighe said. He added that he hoped it would continue "in fact as well as name, because it is a pleasant tradition." Tighe said he knew nothing about the Penn system of State Scholarships. "If we had to compete against proselyting, we just wouldn't compete...
There was little critical comment from the press yesterday. One notable exception: Red Smith of the New York Herald Tribune, who said that "Harvard has abandoned hari-kiri as an athletic policy...