Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every metropolitan newspaper in both New York and Boston played the Bingham statement big, with the accent on Harvard giving up "big-time" football. It would be difficult to think up a better way to keep capable football players out of the Yard. The mere statement that Harvard will "give up the big-time" is enough to send most athletic-minded scholars to Princeton and Yale...
...most significant work, according to its director Charles L. Grace, is "helping to keep the University's material in one piece." Grace reported that his staff frequently supplies outsiders with photostats of a few pages of rare books so the library need not send away whole volumes. In this way, Grace said, the University runs less a risk of losing its valuable possessions...
...These things balance up. Give us time to catch up with our schedule (game have to be scheduled two and three years in advance) and the pendulum of victories will swing our way...
...rely exclusively on student contributions. The College's donations are needed much more by them than by the larger charities, which do not have to rely on this drive alone to reach the students. Although the new arrangement makes it difficult to answer national appeals, it is the only way that student charities can effectively be stressed...
...Harvard's view of business education is the notion that "one must learn to do by doing." Years ago in 1908, when the School first opened, its leaders decided to minimize the study of facts, rules, and routines, and that's the way things have stayed ever since. Meanwhile, what started as a modest, small-scale "problem method of instruction" has evolved through the years into the School's famous "case system...