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...second panelist was Nicholas B. Lemann '76, a former Crimson president, who has been a magazine and newspaper journalist for 25 years, and just recently stepped into the arena of political journalism...
...Journalist Nicholas B. Lemann '76, in his book The Big Test: The Secret History of American Meritocracy, credits University President James B. Conant '14 with founding the concept...
...Conant wanted a system for selecting an administrator class," Lemann says, "of picking out a few people with high IQs and training them to become leaders of society...
...Someone once said that of the 2,000 students that Harvard takes a year, 1,000 are no-brainer decisions because they're Natalie Portman '00 or Yo-Yo Ma '76," says Lemann...
...Lemann, who was also a Crimson president, has taken a role in the process as an active alumni interviewer...