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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protest against any action by Harvard University or alumni giving preference of aid to athletes who apply to Harvard College. I should like to assert that I am as great a sports fan as anyone at Harvard. I had spent more time playing sports than I had eating, attending school, seeing movies, shows, etc., reading, riding on bicycles, cars, trains, streetcars, and busses, listening to the radio, or writing until I got polio when I was 14 years old. Nor have I ceased to play sports since I recovered from my attack: only recently I was warned that my basketball...
...farm club for professional sports, in theory anyway. Sports in college, therefore, is a diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What about the boy who is refused admittance because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American...
...building's first occupant was Walter B. Cannon '96, a professor of Physiology at the Medical School, and for 30 years, it provided a comfortable home for the Cannon family. Cannon House had been erected on the site of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, so when the Institute was built, Cannon House had to be transported across the street to its present location. This was done in 1930--with one horse. The house was hauled intact--chimney and all--and arrived in near perfect condition...
...instance, for two years during the first World War, the kindergarten and first grade of the overcrowded Agassiz School spilled over onto the front porch of Professor Cannon's home. Its spacious back yard offered a fine spot for a play ground, and swings and slides were set up there. At the same time, sailors cultivated the front yard and raised vegetables...
During the last war, from 1942 to 1946, the building was used by the School for Overseas Administration, which trained men in foreign languages (mostly Chinese and Japanese). It also housed a group of chaplains. After the war, Cannon House served briefly as a fraternity house and then as an International House for foreign students before they were admitted to the regular undergraduate dormitories...