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...recent letter to the CRIMSON, Mr. Weinberg has stated the effect of big time football on colleges. He then proposed a solution to the chronic Harvard problem of a losing team: play in a smaller league and, if necessary, abolish football at Harvard altogether. He implied that the only alternative to such de-emphasis is eventual commercialism, the evils of which are too well known to dwell upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weinberg Blasted | 10/9/1951 | See Source »

...penny postcard goes [TIME, Sept. 17], why not simply abolish the penny itself? This would undoubtedly save the Government quite a bit of money . . . BERYL IVY MAYO Jackson, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...hearts of alumni, if that group is unable to support its emotional indulgences, students currently enrolled should not be expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which is a farce and no game for a gentleman. The compulsory Physical Training program, besides violating the soi disant "freedom of a great university," is an unjustifiable expense. Biddies are a luxury most of us would be sorry to see removed, but if a higher education is to be indirectly refused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save What's Left | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

...decisions is evading the hardest part of the task. It is comparatively easy to raise doubts; to point out the ignorance and conflicting evidence that beset the mind on every side. It is well to do this--an honest and trained mind will do it. I would not abolish or disparage the critical part of teaching...

Author: By Ralph BARTON Perry, | Title: Two Memorable Addresses | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...decisions is evading the hardest part of the task. It is comparatively easy to raise doubts; to point out the ignorance and conflicting evidence that beset the mind on every side. It is well to do this--an honest and trained mind will do it. I would not abolish or disparage the critical part of teaching...

Author: By Ralph BARTON Perry, | Title: Two Memorable Addresses | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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