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There seem to be two solutions to the present football confusion. The first is to abandon all pretexts that we are a major college football team and play purely New England schools and one or two traditional rivals. The second is to take a positive attitude toward the game which supports all other athletics at Harvard, and do enough promotion work to at least produce a team which is halfway up the Ivy League scale...
Dunster and Leverett, in recent television-versus-washing machine polls, both favored television. But Dunster, with a bulging House treasury, may also try out a washing machine. If it does so, it will take over Adams' role as the one-House experimenter. Adams was forced to abandon the idea last spring when its committee decided it would be too difficult to pay back a necessary $600 loan from the Student Council...
...badly built and maintained that children rightfully hate to go to them, we should set out to produce temporary schools of top quality." With up-to-date techniques, including prefabrication, a community can build an attractive new schoolhouse quickly and cheaply. When the time comes to remodel, rebuild, or abandon the school entirely, no large investment has been wasted...
...rate, when the Luunts are on stage this reviewer would prefer to abandon the critical approach. It's superfluous to say much more than that the Lunts are back. I know My love...
...cent devaluation should now make exports to the United States just about as profitable as to the non-dollar areas," Smithies points out. "I doubt if anything besides devaluation would have worked. And without devaluation the United States either would have to continue subsidizing Britain beyond 1952 or else abandon her to wrestle with the financial crisis that would seem bound to occur...