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Both these conceptions, which seem to dominate the University setup, make Harvard teams the stepchild of the surplus gate of the football team mated with the publicity office. Harvard teams are thus the products of an almost unparalleled professionalism. Is this the spot Dean Buck designated when he said, "Athletics have a place at Harvard?" Or should athletics and competition, win, lose or draw, be considered an important enough branch of the educational program of the University to receive a direct allocation? William S. Wasserman...
...thought that Kiefer alone would have to bear the burden of the catastrophe. Even if he had failed to see the warning signal, why had the slipshod Long Island, unwanted and neglected stepchild of the great Pennsylvania Railroad*,failed to install automatic stopping devices, which Manhattan subways had had for 48 years? Fed up with years of gross-incompetence on a system that carries more passengers than any other U.S. railroad (300,000 daily), and appalled by the disastrous accident, commuters made an indignant demand: investigate the whole operation of the Long Island, rescue it from what passengers were sure...
Works like Pugilatore and Cavaliere are uncommon enough at any time. Taken with the rest of the Philadelphia show, they seemed to argue that contemporary sculpture, long an ill-paid stepchild of the arts, is a rangy, lively fellow...
When it lost money in the next six years, its passengers darkly suspected the Pennsy of milking its stepchild by overcharging for the use of its Manhattan terminal and East River tunnels. In 1940, the Interstate Commerce Commission found some truth in this. It made the Pennsy kick back $5.6 million of these charges to the Long Island, and make a new contract that trimmed a million a year off the rents...
With hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders dependent on it, the Long Island could not be scrapped. But in bringing its stepchild into court, the Pennsy apparently hoped to be permitted to abandon some of its poorest-paying routes to busses and subways, concentrate on making money where its traffic is heaviest, and get the fares boosted once again...