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According to the athletic records for 1936. Harvard ranks sixth in a nationwide survey conducted by College Humor's John R. Tunis '11 to determine what universities are "tops" in sports.
Football was not the primary standard of judgment, but all branches of sport were considered. The Crimson won its position chiefly because of the title-winning hockey team, which Tunis calls a hockey "four," the track squad that was second to Cornell in the East, the baseball nine that tied...
Placing first among the Eastern colleges, Dartmouth only stood fourth in the nation. Tunis put Louisiana State second, Ohio State third, Dartmouth fourth, and Columbia fifth. After Harvard came Stanford, North Carolina, Indiana, and Minnesota.
If general conditions are really as black as Mr. Tunis paints them, what of Harvard? Fortunately Harvard's slate appears to be clean, for instead of having to lure coy students to Cambridge, University Hall is at pains to limit the enrolment each year so that the teaching staff and...
But with Harvard and a few other large universities free from Mr. Tunis' criticism, the general picture does not become brighter. For the distinction which seems implicit in Mr. Tunis' argument is the difference between a college and a university. A university, engaged in graduate teaching and in research, as...