Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last spring the Administration decided that enough was enough. The Department submitted a projected 1958-59 budget requesting $120,000 more than the total appropriation for last year. The administration, however, decided that only a raise of $20,000 was feasible. The Athletic Department was forced to make economics somewhere; and, as it worked out, the axe fell most heavily on lacrosse and golf...
Blunder Last Spring...
Then, too, there are those who remember the rainy day last spring when the varsity baseball team was sent off for an away game at Cornell. A telephone call to Ithica, prior to departure time, was ruled out--apparently for seasons of "protocol." When the players arrived at Cayuga's waters and found playing conditions impossible, they were forced to turn around and fly right home. The whole fruitless venture cost $1000 in airplane tickets...
Such a drive for funds could aim either at permanently endowing lacrosse, or at providing only enough money to meet the expenses of the next spring season (about $5000). Some Harvard sports--for example, crew and fencing--are already heavily endowed and thus are not a serious financial burden on the University. But this kind of system raises a spectre of undue alumni control over Harvard athletics; and its implications must be carefully thought out before it is accepted as general practice...
...lacrosse team itself says grimly that it will play a full schedule of matches this spring. But where the money will come from--and how some of the wider issues at stake will be resolved--is still anybody's guess...