Word: offing
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At Harvard, the impression is inescapable that many of the proponents of a unified policy on recruiting would be every bit as happy if Harvard set its coaches free as they would be if restrictions were tightened all around. Obviously, this type of thinking leads to destruction of what little...
And one is tempted to ask: Why is it better to have alumni beating the bush than to have coaches actively recruiting? It seems that abuses to the spirit of the Ivy Group agreement are as easily perpetrated by old grads who always wanted to do or die for Harvard...
Shaky though the Ivy League is, the outside world won't leave it alone. That insidious publication, Sports Illustrated, last week scored "the opposition of President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, who tolerates football with only slightly concealed hostility," to its pet proposals: spring practice for the Ivy League and...
The editorial concluded, "Now that Yale has proved it can field one of the country's best collegiate football teams without overemphasizing (another S.I. unproved theory), it is time for President Griswold and his fellow executives in the Ivy colleges to reconsider the bans on spring practice and post-season...
S.I. thinks it is great that Houston can be allowed to field a cross country team composed of a 30-year-old Polish refugee, three Australians aged 28, 26, and 25, and a 24-year-old Scot. The magazine thinks it is even better that McNeese State College in Louisiana...