Word: committeemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admissions Office could boost this prestige by a systematic perusal of every incoming freshman and sophomore from areas in which. Harvard drawing power is weak. Those students whom the Deans, with the advice of the present Committeemen, think potentially helpful would receive a personal invitation to join from Dean Bender. This would add to the prestige incentive and also assure that overly rabid football fans and other who could not judge good prospects would stay out of the Committee...
...cities where the Clubs are lukewarm toward recruitment, and especially in areas where there are no Harvard Clubs, this ideal system deteriorates badly. Instead of receiving a list of pre-tested prospects from Club committeemen, undergraduates soon discover that they are the recruiting. In their short vacation time, they must hunt around town for new prospects instead of injecting conviction into men already interested. Worse, when the undergraduate recruiter returns to Cambridge, nobody follows up his prospects--except perhaps the Yale and Princeton scouts. It is little wonder, than, that from the standpoint of number and quality of applications, some...
Dean Toepfer commented that the predominance of Korea vets in the Law School this year is "only coincidental." All the committeemen agreed, however, that the College will probably be less affected by the influx than will the graduate schools...
...case of the death of a winning candidate, the Republican National Committee, as empowered by its nominating convention, would pick another presidential candidate. The choice of the committeemen this year might be Vice President-Designate Richard Nixon; more likely, it would be someone of more seasoning and stature and almost certainly it would be Senator Robert A. Taft...
...continued, "with a meeting in the Mid-West every other year, we could reach these Committeemen...