Word: local
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Norman Shepard lifts the lid on his first Harvard basketball team, and opens the local season as well, at 8:45 p.m. tonight when an equally untested Tufts five trots onto the Blockhouse floor...
...story, as most of the local press played it, was either completely inaccurate or misleading. For one thing; Bingham said Harvard was giving up "big-time" football. What is "big-time" football? He implied the football team would continue to play traditional Ivy League opponents. Six of Harvard's nine opponents are traditional rivals. Of the other three, everyone knew Stanford was only a home-and-home arrangement, and the Army contract runs until 1951. Holy Cross is hardly "big-time" in 1949. So what did Bingham accomplish by announcing Harvard would cease to he "big-time?" Precisely nothing...
After such a poor season as 1949, and when the local press is running story after story on "what to do about Harvard football," no responsible official should say anything until the hysteria dies down. The next football season doesn't begin until September 1. Nor should such an official say anything only two days after the papers have run screamer headlines, true or untrue, on a player revolt...
Another major change is the arrangement of charities on the solicitation card. In an effort to emphasize student charities, as opposed to national ones, only special student appeals are listed separately. National and local charities such as the March of Dimes, Red Cross, and Community Fund, are lumped together at the bottom of the card with the statement that the contributor should single out those to which he wishes to give...
...obviously for the United Nations and meant well. He did bring out, however, that there are over 6,000 hand gestures in his native dance, and that two India dancing girls can converse with these without using anything else besides a sari. He also edified the local population by demonstrating how to wrap a turban and how to hit a drum...