Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against Army--and gained more points than any other Army opponent this season, incidentally--it was not the excellence of the players that did it. Harvard had but two first-string men on the field during these drives; the rest were substitutes. The Crimson subs scored against Army's second stringers because they had fine plays, well-conceived and well-installed...
These distinguished members of the company of educated men feel that their Harvard diplomas qualify them as expert football critics. Consequently they come with a flask on Saturday afternoons and spend two hours impressing their wives by second-guessing the quarterback. Then they go to a cocktail party and slander the coach. Then they go home and sleep it off. And that...
There seem to be two solutions to the present football confusion. The first is to abandon all pretexts that we are a major college football team and play purely New England schools and one or two traditional rivals. The second is to take a positive attitude toward the game which supports all other athletics at Harvard, and do enough promotion work to at least produce a team which is halfway up the Ivy League scale...
...Second, the H.A.A. should lower the ticket prices. It seems hardly a justifiable business practice to charge $4.20 or even $3.60 to see Harvard play an obviously poor football opponent. The quality of the football played should be reflected at least to some extent in the price of admission...
While waiting for the miracle of a theater building to materialize the University could be taking a second important step. That would be the formation of a faculty committee to study the best method of directing the academic theater once it exists. Whether courses in playwrighting, directing, and acting are desirable, and whether a permanent professional director for student productions should be added to the faculty, are pertinent questions for the University's consideration...