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...This review of Harvard's long-awaited Tenth House, which opened officially the beginning of this school year, originally appeared in the CRIMSON of October 23, 1970. Its author is Martin R. Kaplan...
...Pusey era show what is probably the most impressive growth of any college in the period. Harvard's annual budget increased from $39 million to $188 million, the number of endowed chairs more than doubled, to 277, and the Federal share of the budget grew from one-tenth to one-third. Pusey rebuilt the Divinity School, recruiting men like Paul Tillich and Krister Stendahl, and provided new housing for the Education and Design Schools. Under his leadership, Harvard went into the air for the first time, with high-rise buildings like Leverett, Mather, and Williams James. Monuments to Pusey...
...fact, an article in the New York Times last week quoted Kane's views extensively and reported that the athletic directors had voted, 6-2, in favor of a tenth game at a recent four-day meeting in Stroudsburg, Pa. This vote was apparently a major indication that a policy change was imminent since the directors had never voted approval of this measure before. The article reported that only Harvard and Yale were against it. By League rules, even if the directors approve a new ruling it must also be passed by the Deans, and then by the Presidents...
...three days ago, Harvard athletic director Robert Watson vehemently denied that even the directors had voted for a tenth game. The proposal was not on the agenda, and Watson claims that they discussed it only informally in a one-hour meeting with the coaches, who had just cast their annual 8-0 vote in favor of a tenth game. "Don't go by the New York Times, for God's sakes. That's like going by your CRIMSON...
Watson served on the Deans' committee since its inception before becoming an athletic director, and he is convinced that a tenth game strikes the Presidents as an overemphasis of football inconsistent with the Ivy philosophy. "If they approved a tenth game, the coaches would want more practice beforehand," Watson explained. "Then comes for spring practice. It's sort of a vicious circle, and that's the main reason the Presidents are against it. Boy, they'd love to have the money...