Word: foxes
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...College. Since he won't oc doing so for a while, and may not depart University Hall 4 until the end of the next academic year, a full post-mortem treatment would be premature. With rumor beginning to circulate about a successor, however, a few words about Fox and the post he will leave behind seem more than appropriate...
First, there are good things to say about John Fox. According to all accounts, he is among the most effective administrators at Harvard. To his credit, he has in has nine years as the College's top official done many things which people will remember, which have noticeably affected the quality of undergraduate life and which stand to make his legacy an impressive one. Surely, he's had his failings--an aborted attempt in the late 1970s to save money by criminating hot breakfasts in the Houses is perhaps the most memorable example. But what House Masters and others...
Among a string of other efforts, Fox has improved the lot of athlete throughout the College, helping to shape new facilities and giving women competitors a host of new opportunities. And, Fox has given the Houses the new the they needed after years of neglected maintenance, heading up the massive renovation program that has already repaired River Houses residences to their former glory...
...stereotypes of the Harvard houses are based on actual differences According to Dean of the College John B. Fox his '59 study of House population, in 1982, the percentage of varsity athletes ranged from a high of 45.7 percent in one House to a low of 4.7 percent in another. The percentage of Black students ranged from 17 percent to 3 percent. There is no reason to believe the 1985 will figures will be much different because the current lottery ensures that stereotypes exist and persist. Freshmen undeniably choose the Houses according to stereotypes because they assume they will...
...reputations of certain first-choice Houses have led administrators like Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 to say he has "discomfort" with the current housing system in which Houses fall way short of the ideal "microcosm" of the College...