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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reasons for the deficit were not given explicitly in the appeal to alumni, but Conant did mention that "We have been spending for scholarships about one hundred thousand dollars a year more than our scholarship income." The athletic deficit has also been a perennial source of trouble for the University...
...method was simple. Despite the tears of Brooklyn District Attorney Miles F. McDonald and shrieks of rage from Brooklyn Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz- who threatened to send Gross to jail "for a thousand years"-he just clammed up on the witness stand. Having brought the cops to trial en masse, the prosecution was barred by laws against double jeopardy from trying to bring them to book again. Gross went off, bloody but unbowed, to serve out twelve years in City Prison...
...expected chunks have been but dribbles. The Fund garnered only one million, six hundred thousand last year, and it is extremely doubtful that corporations will wax more generous in the future. Corporations don't have even alumni interest in the medical schools. It would hardly be profitable for them to pay the entire and bill just to escape their share of the taxes when federal aid begins...
...CRIMSON, which has editorially opposed the "Regatta Weekend" and its accompanying "rah-rahism," should have taken it upon itself to sponsor Pogoism. If we assume that "the social unsolidarity" of which the CRIMSON speaks is at least partially a good thing, then the growth of a movement, over three thousand strong, which sports Pogo buttons and chants "I go Pogo" on public occasions must be considered a dangerous phenomenon. The importance of Pogoism is not merely as another manifestation of the growth of mass "rah-rah"; it is possible that this movement may be dangerous in its politics as well...
Even with a shelter for spectators, the cost of such an arena is still reasonable. A quonset-type building, accommodating over one thousand spectators, requires about $65,000. This affords ample room for the average hockey crowd, and the Yale game could move into the Boston Garden...