Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until now, the HAA has been budgeted on a self-sufficient basis. In the past three years, this has resulted in a $326,000 deficit. Now, according to the AP story, the University's "athletics are going to be put on a footing similar to its educational activities. That, Bingham...
The article continues: "The Big Three' no longer exists, Bingham said, and the Ivy League is a better set up. 'We've got a good program and we're going to stick in our own class. Big Time football is out.
"If we stick to our class there is no reason whey Harvard won't get its reasonable share of victories. We played some games out of our class this year and Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown came up with the strongest teams they have had for some time.
For years Harvard men clung fondly to the notion that Adams House food was superior food. The tense air about the early evening crowd in the dining hall line as the interhouse quota slowly filled up, the crushed look on the young faces of those who did not make it...
It is all a gigantic hoax, in fact. For years, Adams boosters have assiduously circulated the fiction that Adams food was better. And the College, like an oyster with an irritant, has built up through the years a veritable pearl of a reputation for Adams House.