Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal gaps to be filled are the center post left vacant by Captain Bill Gray and Leavitt White's forward position. White captained the hoopsters in his Junior year...
...nevertheless, when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals will have, if not a working majority, at least the Court's strongest minority, and, paradoxically for Mr. Roosevelt...
...Saturday the Crimson decried the neglect of local urchins. There is no doubt that dangerous antagonism results from the proximity of groups with such contrasting privileges. The Crimson is right in calling for supervision of these uncared for children. The College should open vacant lots on both sides of the river...
...authorities"? The disastrous results are immediate. Footballs are stolen, cars are looted, Dunster House suffers, students are heckled in the streets, and even the Yard rings to the yells of boys belligerently flying the flag of sour grapes. Rather than wait for action from the University in outfitting their vacant lots, why not act ourselves? Phillips Brooks House is not overtaxed. In Cambridge settlement houses Harvard men can do a world of good, if only to themselves. Since it is the student body that suffers from these potential criminals, students are the ones to interest boys in constructive recreation...
Phillips Brooks House, St. Paul's Church, and other local welfare organizations are already taxed to their utmost. Although they might supply workers, they can make no initial investment. The University, on the other hand, owns several vacant lots near Leverett and Dunster Houses, and farther out by the Maintenance Building. The cost of equipping these lots as playgrounds, with swings and possibly a pair of goal-posts, would be slight, and, if a genuine effort were made in this direction, perhaps the City of Cambridge could be persuaded to lend more help to these youngsters than it does...