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...Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu...
Then again, I must say, I fully understand the roots of Mr. McGinn’s jealousy. Harvard’s athletic incompetence has undoubtedly put a damper on his own sports reporting career. I spotted Mr. McGinn enjoying the free lunch Princeton provides visiting writers, a scrumptious feast he no doubt wishes he could partake in more than once a season. Even worse, Mr. McGinn has not had the chance to travel to Denver to cover the NCAA basketball tournament or to San Diego to cover a football game. Quite...
...McGinn seems at a loss to explain how Princeton athletics became so vastly superior. Let me propose a theory. As Mr. McGinn mentions, Harvard does in fact have an enormous endowment. But money alone—if it is not well spent—does not assure championships. Yes, Harvard’s misdirected spending very much resembles that of the, gasp, Yankees. See, NCAA athletics are an undergraduate endeavor. Up in Cambridge, it’s the graduate students who get all the cash. Once again, quite...
...make you feel better about those four years in second place, does it?). More to the point, it’s those same benefits that have motivated many a high school student to send the little “Thanks, but no thanks” postcard Mr. McGinn mentions to the Harvard admissions office. We have a name for those wise young souls: Princeton Tigers...