Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Chuck Keever adjusts necktie on' Cap- tured Indian eve of Dartmouth game. Perhaps, some of the most important events of the year concerned athletics, particularly football. The resignation of Bill Bingham in February, merely called attention to the changes taking place in the theory and practice of Harvard athleticse and if not changes, at least careful re-evaluation. It was diHicult to say exactly what was happening. 011 the one hand, Harvard was deflnitely going to ease its football schedule; Washington Univer- sity was signed on and Army and Cornell were dropped. On the other, there seemed no doubt that a certain amount of recruiting of uscholar- athletesh was going to be set in motion; the newly- formed Undergraduate Schools Committee, de- signed to acquaint schoolboys with Harvard and what it offered, had a very noticeable leaven of Varsity Club members. Bingham himself might Well have been sacrificed because he was a symbol of the most rigidly amateur standards. It was all pretty much of a puzzle to the ordinary citizen

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Ivy Films opening in Boston. Seniors closing Cambridgee House courtyard. come the Nnvy-type, deep-dish, sectioned plastic tray. Early spring saw another step on the road of progress: the sand-colored, shallow Circular tray. Its advantages were not to be perceived; its disadvantages were legion, the main one being that foods in the aseparateli compartments tended to run together. But the institutional eater is a broken-spirited man. In a few years, no doubt, the tray which keeps courses apart will seem as remote as the waitress seems today. The spring term was packed with interesting events ranging from arson at Claverly lfor the low'browl t0 the first shows of the newly-formed Poetls Theater Her the high hrowl. The Young Progressives had a tiff with the Dean about hand- ing in membership lists tone of the first clashes over ccThe Rules Relating To . . f, Leverett House reclaimed Core Hall from ltimperialistic Win- throp. The University announced that the new General Education Building, which will be built as soon as possible, will he named after the late Allston Burr. This stirred speculation that the Corporation had reversed its highly controversial decision of last spring to build a new Varsity Club with Burrls unrestricted gift.

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His temperature finally having met the Hygiene Buildings high standards, he got a ticket to Stillman. who had never seen the inside of Massachusetts Hall. Now that spring had come the average under- graduate didlft much care what was going on in Mass. Hall. One could learn a lot more about Harvard by lying on the grass by the Charles yup- wind if possibley and looking at the bell-towers sailing on against the clouds, than by eavesdrop- ping 0n the Corporation. One could learn a lot more by putting down onehs glass in Croninhs and listening carefully for a moment. Spring was the time to do these things, and the seniors were fortu- nate that they could end their college careers on a contemplative note. Chief Randall and bystanders watch Clavcrly burn. Mail for the underground.