Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are the men of Harvard--all here for an education, yet quite distinct in their stress of the academic, social, or athletic life.
If the reader regards the Class Marshal elections as mere popularity contests, he should take note of a statistical study made in 1954 on the percentage of distribution among various rank list groups of undergraduates and selected student and alumni groups. The two athletic organizations studied, the crews and varsity...
"There is a tendency for students to wall themselves of into separate groups in terms of their own sets of prejudices and interests," Bender admitted, generalizing on the various group personalities he has observed: "My general impression is that boys with athletic abilities and interests tend to be more broad...
Bender's favorite example of athletic importance is that of the University of Chicago, which eliminated athletic programs just before in an all-out effort for intellectual progress. "Afterward," Bender pointed out, "they found out that the intellectual, in quotes, were not really as as they thought and that the...
question in my mind is value of athletics," Bender are the athletic programs of our expenditures students' interests." Undeniably, Harvard never admits students because it wants their bodies rather than their minds, and it never encourages athletic activity by offering such as Physical .