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...gives free passes to those who can run fast, jump high, throw far, or kick hard. Never mind that Harvard is the most selective college for both athletes and non-athletes or that athletes here often outperform their Ivy counterparts both on the field and, statistically speaking, in the classroom...
...beauty of Harvard is that there are so many ways to pursue excellence outside the classroom,” says men’s basketball coach Frank Sullivan. “Without the weight of scholarships, student-athletes are free to change their priorities when they want...
According to Dean Fitzsimmons, the Office of Admissions tries to “envision people who can educate their classmates and hook into [Harvard] and find something beyond the classroom.” The decision is a difficult one, Fitzsimmons says, because not only does Admissions look for talented athletes (or musicians, student leaders, and so on for that matter), but also individuals who will leave Harvard and make a “positive impact on the world for the next 60, 70, or 80 years...
...proof that it promotes women's rights. More than 50 veiled girls crowd the Yang-e-Qale school's first-grade class, reading the Koran. But in the eighth-grade class, only 12 students sit at the desks, their burkas hanging on hooks in the back of their classroom. Many parents believe a couple of years' education is all their daughters need to become good housewives. Other girls in the area attend classes only because international aid groups give extra food to refugee families that send their daughters to school. Most of the teachers are still in their teens...
...woman was first allowed to enter a Harvard classroom. Twenty full years later, a woman was first awarded a Harvard diploma. In 1975, Harvard and Radcliffe admissions merged, establishing equal admissions standards for both male and female applicants. Today, Harvard women are able to enroll into a field of concentration created to focus on the theory and history of their position in culture and society. The creation of the women’s studies concentration was, according to the Handbook for Students, an impetus to bring together the “new scholarship on women and gender that has come...