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...description in the course guide, let's title it Advanced Principles of Human Movement in a Confined and Well-Defended Space. His students call it varsity basketball; his opponents think of it as water torture. No one anywhere teaches the course more skillfully. Says Princeton Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon: "If we were in Japan, Pete would be designated a Living National Treasure." Instead, Carril may have to settle for merely being the best college basketball coach in America. Year after year, he molds a succession of students whose collective athletic skills would not elicit a raised eyebrow from...
Others argue that the absence of a deep-rooted tradition is liberating. Says former Admissions Director Fred Hargadon: "Stanford's greatest strength is being relatively young, which means that the university has considerably fewer traditions and obstacles to overcome in order to make changes." That sort of openness, notes Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (B.A. 1958), encourages individuality: "The university is very careful to insist that its students remain themselves and not conform and that they develop their own special talents...
...College Board, in New York City, Senior Vice President Fred Hargadon deplores what he calls Owen's "selective use of evidence" and unquestioning promotion of the Review (where Owen now teaches). Says Hargadon of None of the Above: "It wouldn't pass as a graduate paper." E.T.S. President Gregory Anrig particularly disputes the test-score gains reported in the book, saying that coaching usually produces increases of only 14 to 26 points. Many of the "tricks" that Katzman's Review claims to impart, says Anrig, are explained in a free E.T.S. booklet distributed in advance of the SAT. College administrators...
Harvard's main competition for Black students is with Yale. Princeton, Brown, and Stanford universities. Among those four colleges, only Stanford's Black yield increased this year. In fact, the Stanford yield has gone up more than 15 percent in the past three years. Fred Hargadon, dean of admissions and financial aid there, said yesterday...
Success, however, is breeding new problems for minority recruiters, Hargadon said...