Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Selected Writings will "give readers a chance to assess Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...
...first time that the University has ever considered the position of the football player as a special case. It implies at least that Harvard is actually trying to build up a football team by attracting new material. All of which brings us to the peculiar inconsistency of the Bingham statement. While it announces that Harvard will cease to play major league football, it also outlines a concrete method for obtaining the material to make up a "big time" team...
Perhaps the most damaging repercussion of all will be the sheer volume of people antagonized by the Bingham statement. Harold Stassen and the University of Pennsylvania are answering the alledged slur on their athletic purity. The Yale A. A. released a calm but firm reply to the statement that the Big Three contests didn't mean much any more. No doubt, Princeton, as the holder of the last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced...
Bingham's statement may have been issued under the impression that it was off the record. But it has certainly turned out to be a tragic mistake, if only because it is inconsistent unto itself, and indulges in needless justifications
Official silence closed in on the HAA and University Hall yesterday following Wednesday night's statement by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, that Harvard's athletic program was to be overhauled and football de-emphasized...