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...success couldn't eclipse a growing list of irregularities and abuses. They were damaging, as Lo Schiavo realized, "the university's priceless assets, its integrity and its reputation." The recent revelation that an alum had paid star guard Quintin Dailey (since lured to the NBA by big bucks) for a summer job he never performed was only the latest in a string of disclosures of illegal alumni interference with the program and recruiting improprieties by coaches. The university, already the subject of two recent National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) investigations, was facing still further scrutiny from the governing body...
...almost all of those affiliated with the school speak of the symbolic significance of a Harvard diploma. "Third World governments have an enormous respect for Harvard," Pyle says. "Just the name alone gives great prestige to an alum...
...distill that series of events in a more precise fashion-to figure out just how much of it had to do with the idiosyncrasies of this University, with the fact that it tool place in 1980, and with my own personality. My guess is that although a seasoned alum might be able to discern what was characteristically Harvard (or, I suppose, Radcliffe) about what I did from January 19th to the 21st, 1980, my classmates would be best at imagining how I felt at the time. Even those who weren't Crimson editors could, in a word, relate...
...Deborah, is the attractive brunette playing racquetball on the cover of the Wheaties box? And did you know that junior football safety JOHN RICE'S father Greg, held the world record in the two-mile distance for over twelve years starting in the late 1930s? Rice--a Notre Dame alum--was rejected for the draft for hernia problems just days before he blazed to the new mark...
Certainly the most famous Beanpot alum now skating in the NHL is Ranger Dave Silk. Silk's achievements are myriad. In his freshman year at B.U., he notched 35 tallies and 30 assists on his way to being named the New England Hockey Writers Association Rookie of the year. He collected another 58 points in 1978, the year the Terriers took the Beanpot and the National Championship. Though he was out of action for part of the 1979 season, Silk still managed to score 28 points for a Terrier team which once again captured the coveted...