Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time basketball comes back to Harvard this year," say the signs on the wall of the Indoor Athletic Building. The hands that hold the chalk-and have high hopes of using it again this winter to mark up an impressive string of victories-are those of Varsity coach Bill Barclay and his group of elongated Crimson hoop artists...
...room for the election, the Jayvees had dummy scrimmages followed by signal drills, but with Frank Miklos, Bill Fitz and a couple of others now either on the Varsity squad or on lend-lease to it, Chief Boston had to run some of his reserves in the vacated first-string positions...
Hungarian-born Conductor Halasz, a slight and dynamic man who has been in the U.S. eleven years, was given a contract to produce three operas. He inherited a rococo hall, a shoe-string budget (seats are $2.40 top, one-third the Met's) and a free hand. Says he: "Where there is no money, there is no interference from pocketbooks. The only thing that can save us is ideas." At his first performance (Tosca), the guns of the firing squad failed to fire in the last act, and the hero had to drop dead without a bang. In Carmen...
Also visible will be essentially the same group of football players who wreaked Crimson hopes for an undefeated season right around Hallowe'en time last year. This fall, however, most of them are playing second string and Harlow's eleven has been beaten twice to date. The local bookies quote Rutgers a one point favorite, but the Crimson will have to stage a brilliant upset to equal or better this mark...
Hatchett, sophomore wingman who missed last season because of an injury, has developed into a first-string operative after excelling in a substitute role for the injured Jack Garrabrant...