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...part of the dilemma. If alumni really scoured the country for "scholar-athletes," it is argued, Harvard could field a respectable football team each year without resorting to paying players or lowering its academic standards. But this sort of program must be carefully watched. Attempts to get more good all-round students to apply to Harvard and thus broaden the base from which the admissions committee can choose are ipso facto desirable. But misdirected efforts which unbalanced this broad base in favor of football players or any other group with specific technical skills would just as surely be undesirable...
...presently checking on the advisability of asking former scholarship holders to reimburse the University for the aid they received while in college. He asserts, "Without more funds, we will have to reduce the number of awards, particularly to entering freshmen. This reduction cannot help but affect adversely the all-round quality of the undergraduate body...
...time, the only book she had ever read was Gone With the Wind. Clarinetist Shaw (an alumnus of the New Haven High School and Manhattan's lower East Side) was not satisfied with being just a bandleader ("jitterbugs are morons"), but fancied himself as a serious musician and all-round intellectual. After he married Ava, in 1945, he set out to educate...
Stripped of her glamour and pedigree, however, the plain-faced miss struck museum officials as an all-round better piece of art. Last week she was upstairs, entitled simply A Lady...
Edward T. Folliard, 52, has been the Washington Post's crack all-round reporter for years. For his series exposing the anti-Catholic, anti-Negro Columbians in Atlanta, he won a Pulitzer Prize...