While the journalist salve might have soothed the University's hurt pride, the team didn't seem to listen. Determined to salvage a mediocre season. It marched determinedly into the stadium to face a highly favored Yale powerhouse. Battling within the shadow of its own goal-posts for 60 minutes, the varsity kept the Bulldog leashed and gained a 0 to 0 tie. The nation's press was unanimous in its praise for the courageous eleven.
Coats and Cars
And as some 3,000 undergraduates and their dates walked jubilantly across the Anderson bridge many of them sporting raccoon coasts and flasks full of bootlegged whiskey, the CRIMSON chuckled. "Do you see the Coat that fellow is wearing? No it is not His Own. What does that Matter? It might as well be. It is his Roommate's. There are nine of them. All Told, who room together. His roommate, the one who Bought the fur coat I mean, felt he had to have it to keep Up with Everyone Else. Now, it is All he can do to keep up with the Coat. He didn't Mind buying that car to live with the Coat., but it does seem a shame that he can never get Coat and Car together."
After the football season, the battle raged over de-emphasis and Harvard turned towards the idea of "athletics for all." William J. Bingham '16 was appointed athletic director. The University had taken more than four months to screed through a list of nominees, and it chose its man wisely, Bingham made the Harvard intramural program the best in the country.
Undergraduates were also arguing about America's entry into the World Court. They listened to Lowell's plea for U.S. participation and made Frederick Vanderbilt Field chairman of a student council investigating committee. It would have taken quite a class oracle to prophecy where the popular Field's international interests would finally lead.
While there seems to have been no bona-fide clairvoyants, the campus boasted a surplus of phonies. Mental telepathy and thought transmission had become the latest fad in an era where undergraduates bit eagerly at any dish labeled exotic. There was Margery, who claimed telepathy limbs, and Dr. and Mrs. Crandon, another pair of popular mediums. The University, in an attempt to rip the blinders off a gullible populace, persuaded several instructors to sign up for seances to expose the spiritualists. Subsequently, the pair of prestidigitators packed up and left the town.
Denied access to the medium's parlor, the Junior had a large field of entertainment yet to be explored. John Phillip Souse arrived in Cambridge with his famous band for a concert. Over at Symphony Hall Serge Koussevitzky and a young graduate student named G. W. Wood worth were training the Glee Club for a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. And the Hasty Pudding Theatricals were recruiting talent for "1776", a play that was to travel around the country, with W.E. Wilson as a very charming young heroine.
The Junior, in fact, was just beginning to come to his own in the College's activities. John F. W. Whitbeck, captain of the tennis team, again captured the University tournament. A strong track team led by Juniors Alfred Miller and Ells worth Haggerty dominated the indoor Eastern tracks and won the IC AA indoor championship. The debating team tool the measure of Oxford arguing that Socialism "was detrimental to human progress."
As far as '27 was concerned, progress was here to stay. Eddie Rickenbacker predicted that within 25 years autos would be outmoded and airplanes would take over the transportation business. Juniors smiled and went home for the Christmas vacation and a whirl of parties. Some of the more adventurous looked with envy on the expedition that was leaving for Yucatan or listened wide eyed to accounts of the Mountaineering Club's attempts to climb Everest.
As the spring term began, undergraduates had a new aid in choosing their courses. The CRIMSON published its first "Confidential Guide to Undergraduate Courses" to the glee and dismay of undergraduates and instructors respectively.
The new term was a happy one for Harvard athletics. The hockey team skated to victory after victory, smashing Dartmouth to take the Eastern title-William Ellis on was chosen to lead the next year team. As usual, a strong squash squad grabbed the national championship: Herbert N. Rawlins was elected captain for the next season. In the midst of triumph, football hopes soared as Arnold Horween '21, a football hero of a few years back, became the varsity coach.
As the weather grew warmer, the crews started rowing on the Charles, and the baseball team, thanks largely to Isadore Zarakov's booming bat, swept to the Big Three championship. The crew, however, was not no fortunate, having a mediocre season. Geoffrey Platt was chosen to captain the crew for '27, On the cinders, the track team fell to Yale by only one-third of a point and came in third behind Southern California the IC AA meet, held at Soldiers field. The polo squad, with Royal Burnett at three and R. B. Pinkerton as captain, won the Eastern title.
Off the playing field, the Junior practiced his chariest on in preparation for the Prom, which was being planned by John time were the Student Council elections. The officers for the next year would be Leo Francis Daley, president: John Randolph Burke, vice-president: Henry S. Wood bridge, secretary; and Frederick Vanderbilt Field, treasurer.
The big issues which were dividing the nation were reflected in campus discussion. Professor Kirtley K. Mather argued that evolutionary theory should be taught in the schools. H. L. Mencken, vitriolic editor of the "American Mercury," brought his battle against American "Babbittry" to the University as he attacked the Watch and Ward Society. In a poll, the CRIMSON found the College strongly in favor of the Volstead act but divided on the basic issue of prohibition.
Harvard had its own controversy, top. The Student Council issued a report advising the University to split the three undergraduate classes into separate houses, each holding two to three hundred students, in a plan somewhat like the Oxford-Cambridge system. The Class of '27 would never enjoy the befit of the plan, but the Council's report led directly to the Present House system.
The new system would see the dormi-.