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November 16 marks the opening of Crimson hockey practice for the coming season. It also marks the climax, although not the conclusion, of a three-year campaign for a Harvard hockey rink...
Smith is a 22-year old fullback, stocky and powerful at 188 pounds and 5 feet 10 inches. He is a three-year letterman, and last season was the Tigers' rushing and scoring leader. He was unanimously voted All-Eastern honors after ranking ninth nationally in rushing with 821 yards and a 6.2 yard average...
...September, flushed with the achievement of leading the Dodgers to their second National League pennant in a row, Charley Dressen had sat him down to compose a letter to O'Malley & Co. In forceful phrases, the letter pointed out that the managers of several also-rans had got three-year contracts: Charley Grimm of the second-place Milwaukee Braves, Eddie Stanky of the fourth-place St. Louis Cardinals. Even Leo Durocher-especially Leo Durocher-of the fifth-place New-York Giants, had been given a two-year contract. Charley Dressen demanded a raise-(from $32,500) and something better...
Some say that Harvard, to become a truly national school, should allow students who could not bear the expense of a four-year program to finish in three. But this argument fails in two respects. First, the College has a primary obligation to maintain certain standards for its AB degree; and a packed three-year schedule is not conducive to a rounded liberal arts education. Moreover, men who have the aptitude, and have received the secondary school training necessary to telescope the General Education program into one year, can probably share in the mammoth Financial Aid program...
Harvard must weigh the probable advantages of both systems. The three-year plan might reduce the number of books that some students re-read, and allow a few men who cannot qualify for scholarships to win a Harvard diploma. But keeping the four-year rule will continue to mean that all Harvard graduates have received a common grounding in the liberal arts on which to build. And a Harvard degree will still represent a standard opportunity to have developed the intellectual and emotional maturity that comes through education...