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...word a spectacle that day; the 52,000 who spent three hours in the rain must have been actuated only by the desire to witness a good football game. Saturday, scores of undergraduates spent the afternoon elsewhere, mainly because of the pre-game supposition that William and Mary would afford little opposition...
Because Mayor Thompson reputedly carries the city's Negro vote in his vest pocket, Republican leaders like Cook County Chairman Bernard W. Snow were thoroughly alarmed at his defection. Nominee McCormick's chances of election were not so bright that she could afford to lose 75,000 normally Republican votes in Chicago...
Despite my Cantabrigian prejudices, I am forced to decree that only those will watch this afternoon's game in the Stadium who can not afford to travel to Maine, where Colby will clinch the state championship, or to Yale where "Der Tag" has arrived and the Big Green will shake the jinx at the Bowl. If the going is wet, Dartmouth should have a decided edge; if dry, the Bulldog will battle them on nearly even terms...
...they wouldn't dare, but more than that, because most of them wouldn't want to. Most students dare at all times, and sometimes they want to, for there are occasions when youthful energy and enthusiasm desire an outlet and find none, despite compulsory athletics, which is supposed to afford one and obviously doesn't. So disturbances of one kind or another occur, not in the spirit of vandalism but rather of over-enthusiasm and thoughtlessness...
These are questions to which Harvard men are entitled to know the answer. If the University wants the alumni and undergraduate support which are the very essence of the institution, it can ill afford to continue its present policy of silence and procrastination...