Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard won when football was a family affair with Yale and Princeton, the Indians saved their scalps by staying up in the hills from 1912 to 1922. This was the Golden Age of Crimson football when Percy Haughton's machine won 71 out of 83 games and the Cantabs went to the Rose Bowl...
When Robert G. Albion graduated from Bowdoin in 1918, he had to choose between the newspaper business or a stretch at graduate work in history. "I took a look at the old boys in the city room, compared 'em with the professors mellowing at Bowdoin, and off I went to Harvard...
...this issue of the CRIMSON went to press, top Globe moguls were still in executive session in an attempt to decide whether to run two days' worth of the Kigmy saga today or to make up later for lost kicks...
During the last war, Albion went to work writing the administrative history of the Navy, "following in Sam Morison's wake, a usual." Albion covered 50,000 miles, interviewed Admirals by their West Indian swimming pools, accumulated a squad of Wave secretaries, and filled 120 typescript volumes. He found the heat of Washington uncondusive to the writing up of all this material, however, and talked the Navy into moving the Waves up to his home city of Portland, Me. The stimulation of the salt air increased his productivity considerably and he shortly expects to bring out the first...
...head of the General Education program during its trial years, Professor Wright made the program so successful that last year the Faculty went right down the line with his final recommendations--to make the program a permanent and increasing part of the College curriculum. He guided what might have become a rambling and ill-organized group of courses through the years when a determined segment of the Faculty was dead against G.E.; he left the program vigorous and expanding...