Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coaches feel that a freshman crew must row 300 miles before it begins to reach its potential, and that they must row this distance before their first race. At the present time the Freshman have only logged 225 miles, and rowing an average of forty a week the lightweights should have a fortnight of practice before their first competition. Unfortunately it comes today...
Tuesday's time was the first promising one for the first eight, but last year's undefeated Freshmen did not surpass it until two weeks later in the spring. Coach Bill Leavitt feels that a winning boat must be able to finish a race with a forty stroke per minute cadence. In Tuesday's race the first eight finished at a 34, and had they been able to push up the stroke they could have beaten...
Kaysen, like Bender, emphasized that Harvard alone cannot bring a change in secondary school educational policies. He conceded that mathematics standards might be too low, but agreed that any change must be done by large, widelyknown colleges working together...
Additional admissions requirements might lead "to a serious decline in the quality of the Harvard student body," Dean Bender stated. He claimed that any change in policy must come with co-operation, since by acting alone, Harvard will lose many high-quality students...
...causes disdain for another reason, and so the student may mark his ballot with the patronizing view that he is pampering to the foolish whims of these politicos who perhaps do what they do because they lack the intellectual strength to study and become immersed in academics, and so must compensate for their academic weaknesses by attempting to gain recognition through politics. Although this may be a somewhat facile judgment, it bears consideration in the light of the growing academization of Harvard, the continued admission of students who are below or at least work below the Harvard academic median...