No Free Speech?

At the end of the term Representative Blanchard '94 and Bates'19 of the Massachusetts Legislature broke into the news by charging that the University was under the iron thumb of big business: "Freedom of speech is dead while big business forces every scholar to say only what J. P. Morgan and his crowd permit him to say. Harvard succeeded in getting $5 million for the Business School, but it couldn't raise a cent to keep the greatest dramatic teacher in America."

Blanchard's position to launch a state investigation of Harvard was defeated unanimously.

After an exciting midyear during which the sun was eclipsed on January 24 and, according to predictions by the Seventh Day Adventists, the world was to end in February 6, life in Cambridge went "back to normalcy."

Winter sports came to an end and the sophomores had been well-pre resented. The changing hockey lineup saw Edward Bailey. William Ellison, Hamlet, and Zarakov starting at one time or anther. The four win, two loss record was climaxed by the February Yale playoff. In finally won I to 0 after 87 minutes of play. For the first time since 1922 the basketball team, paced by sophomore John Leekley, won over Yale (34 to 25) and ended with a 12 win, two loss season.

Ellsworth Haggerty '27 set a new Harvard-Yale record in the BAA meet and the team put on a superb performance in downing Dartmouth and Cornell. Wrestler Henry R. Wood--now in the 158 pound class--starred for the mat squad, as did Herbert Rawlins, Jr. for the squash team. The latter went on the win the University championship. And all athletes were happy when the College announced that Fisher would continue as head football coach.

Obscenity Reigns

Trying to avoid court bans became the college's spring fad. First the Liberal Club obtained Margaret Sanger, a devotee of birth controlled who had been banned by Mayor Curley, as a luncheon speaker.

But it was the Lampoon's April "Literary Dig eat" Issue that really roused the ire of the Boston police. The Issue, banned for "desecration of the flag," depicted on the cover a tipsy Washington crossing the Delaware with the Caption underneath, "Sit down, you're rocking the boat." Although many issues were confiscated, Lamp ran a second printing and sold hundreds. The parody's price. sky-rocketed--as $12 a copy in New York city.

Even the usually staid Advocate got into trouble. Although the post office declared its parody of "Dial" was mail-able, Boston still banned it. A nude man, line drawings and obscene Jokes provoked Municipal Court Judge John Duff to say. "Not in years has more indecent literature' been placed on sale in Boston. Even the Holy Bible did not escape their perverted brains."

May brought the sophomore smoker, the outing of the scare that a hotel would be built on Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, and William Jennings Bryan to speak on "democracy." On the eleventh, 2,000 avid crow fans waited until 3 p.m. to se Harvard got off to a fast start against Penn, M.I.T., and Cornell in the Quadrangular Regatta, rough water had postponed the race for three hours. The Cantab and Penn Crew soon left the others far behind. Matching stroke for stroke they swept down the Charles, but Harvard took advantage of a snapped oarlock in the Quaker shell to win a thrilling victory.

Led by hard hitting Zarakov and first baseman Clement Candy, the baseball team went into the Yale series with a nine win, 12 defeat record. It was the first time in Harvard baseball history that the Crimson met Yale with more defeats that victories. Yale then trounced Harvard, 25 to 15 and 18 to 4. In track Haggerty took a first in the ICAA mile run-but the favored team later lost to Yale. Sophomores Geoffrey Platt and Robert Ladd tried hard, but the crew lost to Yale again.

A little disheartened by the fact that Yale had won every major sporting match, the sophomore took his exams and went home. His college career was half over.

Juniors who returned to Cambridge in the fall had to wind their way though groups of carpenters and bricklayers as they hurried top registration surge of building that marked the last few years of President Lowell's administration saw six new edifices mushroom on the campus with still more on the drawing boards. Lionel, Mower, Straus, Lehman, McKinlock and the Fogg Museum would soon be ready for use, and across the river workmen were digging the foundations for the new Business School.

As if President Lowell's innovations were contagious, the football team, with its new fisher-Daley stratagems, bared its muscles and thrashed hapless Middlebury College by 68 to 0 for the largest Harvard score since 1891. Undergraduate jubiliation, however, slowly died and turned to dismay as Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Princeton drubbed the Crimson on successive weekends. In the gloom overemphasis in college football. Mother Advocate, sensing crusade in the making, trudged a few yards up Plympton Street to borrow the cudgel. "Football" she said in her October issue, "may actually become professional."