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Akpan, undoubtedly the best player on the Harvard team, scored 12 of the team’s 32 goals this season, and tied or broke nearly every Crimson offensive record in his career...
Nyamekye, who at times resembled a brick wall in the Harvard defense, also has a potential career in soccer ahead...
...pattern of career choices began to change. Until then, even though business ambitions and management degrees have not been disfavored in our competition, business careers attracted relatively few Rhodes Scholars, and it was the rare scholar who went to Wall Street or to finance. No one argued this an unfit or unworthy domain for Rhodes Scholars; it was simply on few scholars’ radar. And those who did make such a choice, including myself, usually did so after beginning a different career. Only three of the 320 American Rhodes Scholars in the ’70s went directly into...
Nothing—if one believes that changed career paths of a few privileged people is of no larger significance. But some have gifts that realistically could be expected to lead to world-changing breakthroughs, cures, or innovations; greater respect for politics; even to hundreds of profoundly moved and inspired students. Moreover, this reflects something far more pervasive. Consider President Drew G. Faust’s recent laments for the increasingly material, instrumental ambitions of so many of her students. She has noted the steep national decline in the percentage of students majoring in liberal arts and sciences since...
...last explanation: if one believes that 10 or 20 years down business career tracks, when going back to earlier ambitions is rarely possible, those choices will be the ones that have created the greatest happiness for those individuals...