Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wade C. Thompson, through an advertisement in the Brown Daily Herald, asked for signers for a petition that called for the abolishment of football at Brown, labeling the game "anti-intellectual and bourgeois." The Herald quoted the instructor as saying, "the reaction (to the proposal) exceeded my wildest expectations...
Athletic officials, meanwhile, criticized Thompson's lack of knowledge on the subject. Mackesey said that the teacher is only seeking headlines, while McLaughry cited the character and academic records of his players...
...Wednesday's college newspaper a mysterious "J.G." advertised a petition calling for the banishment of Thompson from the Brown campus...
Unfeazed by this, Thompson maintained that "because students want it" is a poor criterion for tolerating football. He added, "That criterion would justify anything from 'free love' onward...
Judges in the contest were Attilio Poto, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music. The orchestra will play "Variations on a Melody" at its annual spring concert in Sanders Theatre. On the same program it will present the winner in its concerto contest...