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Gives Talk at Kirkland

By Bennett H. Beach

Bill Vecck, the owner of Suffolk Downs Race Track, spoke mostly about baseball last night in the Kirkland JCR, but in response to a question at the end of his talk, he said that he was "surprised and ashamed" that Harvard last fall denied football coach John Yovicsin the right to work part-time at Suffolk Downs.

Harvard had given Yovicsin an okay to seek employment during the off-season, but Yovicsin did not ask specific approval for the race track position, which involved promotional work.

After Vecck announced in November

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