Word: easier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with crew, because crew is an old and traditional sport; it is contained within the multitudes of the meaning of Harvard. And besides, it has an overwhelming reserve of alumni financial support. All of which does to prove, of course, that the University has learned that it's easier to ski down a hill than to row up a hill against the current...
...your superstitions on good food--here is a little more information. Certain foods, such as meats, vegetables, and fruit (milk is not always on the lunch meal), are much easier to digest, and, therefore, better for the athlete before exerting himself. The price for all this is less than $5 a person (4,000 students x $5 equals $20,000), and you must also remember that each boy can eat only one meal, either at the varsity club or in his house...
...feel about becoming a cardinal? "I personally don't have the temperament or the psychological background for honors of this kind. I'm happy with this honor because the people are happy. It would have been much easier without it. I'm a man who doesn't take to protocol, social ecclesiastical standing, and other high places that go with the robes of a prince of the church. But I am tremendously grateful to the Pope...
...Nice to Baby. Hundreds of organizations, from the Girls' Service League to the United World Federalists, are staging parties every night because there is no easier way for a charity to make money. For $5,700 (and only 20% down), the Maternity Center Association bought up Marriage-Go-Round one night last week. It sold the tickets to members for $10 to $30, wound up with a profit of $16,000. Its major out-of-pocket cost: $210 for postage stamps. Why choose a broad sex comedy such as Marriage-Go-Round for the Maternity Center? Explains Director Hazel...
Certain adjustments were necessary when her family moved from Lawrence to Harvard, but Mrs. Pusey asserts that "I have no generalizations to offer about the Mid-West and the East. There are differences, none of them shocking, and most of them superficial. I think it may be easier for a youngster who wants to study to do so here, without having to hide it. And the old prep school myth--what they used to call 'lack of serious-mindedness'--doesn't seem to be true...