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Mower is a prototype of Harvard's diversity. In one room alone, there is a preppie, a gov jock and an East Asian studies concentrator. We have agnostics, Communists, even a social Darwinist. Diversity is Mower's middle name...
...first-years should be familiar with Kirkland's stereotype as the College's "Jock House," a label that may have attracted some and discouraged others...
...more than willing to bear our fair share of the burden," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jock Covey said in Washington last week, "but we also expect others to bear theirs." Since mid-September, when Secretary of State James Baker and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady circled the globe raising funds, 54 countries have made pledges totaling $20 billion, which will be divided between military support and economic assistance to states in the region...
While we're all down at Soldiers Field and you all are back across the river studying (or maybe you don't study much since you're so smart already), I'll spread the word to all of the members of the "jock sub-culture" that they may as well put in some more hours in the training room, the weight room, Gordon, Bright or Briggs because once they get back across the river they're doomed to struggle with their academic inferiority. Hollie J. Moore...
...essentially confess to an accusation that they have long brushed aside--that many athletes admitted to Harvard are substantially less qualified than the rest of the student body. Although the University has been loathe to release specific figures in the past, casual observation reveals the nasty truth that a "jock" sub-culture exists at the nation's most prestigious academic institution. Admittedly, Harvard is not Oklahoma University. Nevertheless, one of Harvard's outstanding hockey players told a Crimson reporter two years ago that he was "not an Ivy League kind of student" and that he could not call himself...