Word: institutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Colleges of late have felt uneasy about admitting the importance of football receipts in their budget; they sense that there is something unwholesome about it. Provost Buck, for instance, said a year ago, "Complete dependence of an athletic program on ticket sales is a dependence on public support, and this...
"Their financial and public aspects, the reputation which they confer upon the institution, and a thousand other forces unite to make college athletics not so much an activity of undergraduate life as joint cooperative enterprises involving presidents, trustees, faculties, alumni, townsmen, and the vast publics of the radio and press...
To come under Social Security, an institution must get the consent of two-thirds of its employees. The Old Age and Survival portion of the act was extended last summer to cover employees of such non-profit organizations as universities and colleges.
Says the report: "At Harvard, which has all the advantages of a great university, the Houses can provide also all the important advantages of a small institution if they are properly developed. But. . . the individual Houses (must be) small enough to be manageable units for social, athletic, and activities purposes...
By last week, some 250.000 freshmen at colleges all over the U.S. had had a chance to read the saga of Ted; most campus COs apparently were convinced that Ted's primer-simple story was just what their freshmen would go for.* Without consulting with each other, Colonels Summerall...