Word: towards
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Dunster is not without its shortcomings, as even its most vehement booster would admit. In recent years the House composition has been overbalanced toward the sciences and social sciences, particularly government, with a corresponding scarcity of humanities concentrators...
Also, the extra-curricular emphasis in the House has tended toward the athletic at the expense of other fields. Four consecutive Straus Trophies were the result. A singing group, the Dunster Dunces, was the main exception, and is still the most colorful such group at the University...
Professor von Blanckenhagen's attitude toward the classics clearly reflects his cultural background. "I hope that the atmosphere of Harvard will continue to produce classically educated gentlemen of leisure who will not be concerned with money or being men of affairs, but who read the classics for delight, and form a background absolutely necessary for a living university." Anything but a snob, he seems to mean this more as a scholar than as a gentleman...
John Yovicsin, recently appointed head football coach, made it very clear at his first press conference yesterday that within the limits of the Ivy League, he will bend every effort toward "winning football...
Since Yale is a "more centrifugally oriented community," he said, it would offer the Harvard student "the stimulation of more companionship" than he is accustomed to in the apparently less friendly environs of Cambridge. Other advantages of the plan mentioned by Weiss were the "different attitude at Yale toward sports and extra-curricular activities," and "the chance to renew old high school friendships...