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Many of the folders which Glimp read had been drawn in by Bender's efforts to recruit in high schools and in regions where Harvard had never been very active, and to offer more financial aid there than Harvard had ever done before. They came from poorer urban neighborhoods, from foreign countries--and from the mid-West...
...Glimp was fascinated. He was soon named director of freshman scholarships, a post in which he had to read about half the applications for every class. For this half he developed an important loyalty. "There is something about the freshmen on scholarships," he says, "not that they're more interesting--that's unfair to the rest. But they add variety to the class, somehow hold it together...
...Glimp had worked so hard and so well that there was no more logical successor to Dean Bender. "Everyone said that no one could take Bender's place," a colleague remembers. "Glimp...
...Glimp has made no radical changes in the recruiting procedure, but he and his staff have spent more and more time outside the normal recruiting circuits, and have let the alumni handle more and more work in the "reliable" schools. What Glimp is looking for has not always been well defined; he argues that a search for students with unusual backgrounds is justified in itself...
...Glimp has reduced the number of students who are admitted from private preparatory schools and sought successfully to increase the number and amount of scholarships offered to each entering class. When he became dean, six years ago, 25 per cent of the freshmen class received scholarships; 40 per cent will next year. A total of $1.2 million in scholarships were held by students six years ago; the total next year will be $2.7 million...