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Weinberger makes a myriad of assumptions regarding Mr. Lane, which we challenge him to substantiate. First, Weinberger makes the claim that “he was basically a professional from the very beginning” and further alleges that Lane??s hockey experience prior to admission at Harvard somehow ought to have rendered him ineligible. While Mr. Weinberger may not be familiar with the world of athletics, it is more the rule than the exception to play on numerous club teams and select teams—even taking years between high school and college...
Next, Weinberger makes arrogant presumptions about Lane??s motives for leaving so abruptly, claiming that he was “never serious about education to begin with.” Many students, from painters to pianists, leave Harvard to pursue careers in non-academic areas, but does this justify his charge that their only interest in attending Harvard in the first place was to simply mold clay or play the cello? We doubt this letter would have found its way to The Crimson if instead it were a Bill Gates-type who withdrew. We detect a healthy level...
...point about Lane??s roommates “enjoying more space,” we can only say that as an Expos preceptor, we’d expect something more germane to his argument. However Weinberger makes one last argument in this closing paragraph that contains the least logic of all: he charges that the travesty in Lane??s leaving is that he denies a student who “belonged here” a spot. Exactly who does Weinberger think he is to make such a presumptuous comment? Is Weinberger just the pen name...
...serious about education to begin with. Maybe it is a refreshing absence of cant not to pay lip service to education, but this seems to me to be the least Harvard should expect from its applicants, even athletes recruited to play sports. In the meantime we have Jesse E. Lane??s brief achievements on the ice to salute: three games, one assist and four penalties...
It’s fine for Harvard to recruit athletes, but this decision strikes me as a travesty. The signs were there all along. While one is happy for Lane??s Holworthy roommates, who will enjoy the extra space in their suite now that he has left, in the meantime a Harvard place has gone wasted. As someone who has taught secondary students in the Summer School, I know a few students who could have usefully filled it. One of them, a young woman from Dallas, had her heart set on Harvard and was waitlisted, never to come...