Word: tech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studious son of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. Houston was a college physics teacher at 20, a full professor at Cal Tech at 31, at 34 the author of a definitive text in mathematical physics. For several years during the 'war he worked on anti-submarine devices at Columbia University. No backslapping endowment hustler, Physicist Houston intends to continue his own researches (spectroscopy, the structure of solvents), to stiffen Rice's entrance requirements, and to keep sports a college sideline. Says he: "Football should serve principally to provide necessary physical relaxation." His first big task: to get the people...
...basis of the first game between the clubs, the Crimson should have no trouble in repeating its early season 42 to 21 win. Except for veteran right guard Chuck Wellard, no member of the Tech team even remotely possesses the class, speed or shooting ability which have marked the Varsity in its most recent games...
...basis of Saturday's slaughter of Brown, and comparative scores against Tech--whom the Jumbos beat 54 to 46--the Crimson will probably enter the game a slight favorite. Though victorious in two of three games this season, the Jumbos have given no indication that they are on a par with the 1945 Crimson powerhouse...
...through the war, the Harvard and M.I.T. laboratories, just a mile apart, carried on a friendly but deadly serious rivalry: the Tech Radiation lab developed better and better radars, and the Harvard R.R.L. produced better and better jammers. From the roof of the Bio Lab, the Harvard technicians took delight in jamming Tech radars across the roof tops of Cambridge...
...Green. And Dr. Frank has nourished such educational plants as Albert Coates's Institute of Government (which each year trains scores of North Carolina sheriffs, tax collectors, and small fry officials); the Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university press; and Howard Odum's famed Institute for Research in Social Science. Not all his battles have been victories, A conspicuous defeat: his fight to make U.S. college football a simon-pure amateur game...