Word: toland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nature of the administrative work itself doesn't really permit impersonality. The department caters to students and it would be impossible to reduce the players to the numbers and statistics of the Registrar's office. Francis Toland, the department's business manager, describes Boylston street as "a continual flow of bodies," students with questions and problems that have to be dealt with before the teams can begin to play...
...business manager. Toland finds many of those bodies coming to him, with "all the headaches, complaints, you name it." Since he must authorize every expenditure in the department. Toland is usually busy--but not too busy to stop and describe the final seconds of the '68 Harvard-Yale game, when Harvard "beat" Yale by tying the score in the last 40 seconds of the game. The pictures of former Harvard coaches and long-departed football teams bear witness to his interest, above all, in sports...
People like Toland increase your sense that the only difference between players and administrators at Boylston Street is a few years in between. Because students who go there regularly have to be part of the sports program, they have a lot more in common with staffers than one finds in most student-administration interaction. Most of the people who work on the second floor of the building reflect this easy-going attitude. In one office, several administrators toss a nurf ball around while they discuss health insurance policies, while a conversation about the IAB filters through opposite ends...
...University, the small, dark old fraternity house has open stairwells, crowded offices that open onto the halls, and connecting passageways between offices. It would be hard to stay aloof from the general traffic, even though the chaos does sometimes make it hard to get much work done, Toland says...
Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940, photographed by Gregg Toland), with Henry Fonda; and a Harold Lloyd short, Thursday...