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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted to be an enigma. I wanted to be the kid who could have gone anywhere in the country and went to Harvard. People who weren't involved with basketball were impressed but a lot of those who were felt that I had thrown my basketball career out the window. I was ready to change Harvard basketball. I wanted a good education--no, a Harvard education. The biggest reason why anybody comes to Harvard is because it's Harvard...
...pressure for an "insider" brought results, but the alumni may have gone too far. True, their arguments make some sense: Watson agrees that the department's traditionally close affiliation with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and its primary responsibility to undergraduates, make it logical for the director to be someone close to the College. But as Pittenger notes, "There is a certain degree of professionalism in athletic administration," that exists even without a Harvard degree. Though he adds that his long stay at Harvard had made him enough of an "insider" that his lack of a Harvard sheepskin...
...conversations with Ring's friends which Donald Elder provided in the only other Lardner biography in existence. Ring, if it misses anything, is lacking in any real insights into Lardner's personality. Yet Yardley can hardly be faulted for this, because all of Ring's friends are long gone. One is left wondering, for instance, why Lardner projected such a severe image, as revealed by many of the pictures Yardley has gathered of him. Lardner never looks happy, and Yardley mentions one factor which may have contributed to his chronic heavy drinking. He died in 1933, we are told, feeling...
...avoiding open debate on the details of their proposal to tighten up the present General Education requirements for undergraduates until they have thoroughly thrashed them out with concerned faculty. Little wonder that none of the key figures in the core curriculum want to say much about what's gone on this summer...
Despite the strength of the opposition, though, things are looking up for Harvard. Herold says that the malaise of defeatism that persisted through last season is gone, and gone for good. Add to the winning spirit the arrival of new assistant coaches Mike Strickland and Kevin Walsh, and you have the makings of a strong team...