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...article that appeared in 1946, Provost Paul H. Buck criticized the prevalence in the college of “floppy ducklings,” students who were neither great scholars nor great athletes, musicians or artists. Buck, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, argued that the College still hosted the nation??s top scholars, but that it was not doing enough to attract students that excelled in other ways...
More importantly, the College had enlisted a national network of alumni and recruiters to seek out not only the nation??s best scholars, but its athletes, musicians, and artists as well...
Buck and Bender sought excellence in all areas, but some expressed concern that the new recruitment initiative would place undue emphasis on athletics. A 1951 article in The Crimson outlined the ways in which the College had begun to pursue the nation??s most desirable applicants, outlining the program’s merits but warning that the new recruiting apparatus could be abused...
...ruler of the United Arab Emirates, Zayed is responsible for his nation??s poor human rights record, which includes, according to Amnesty International, corporal punishment of dissidents, lack of democracy, and the use of child slave labor in the camel racing industry. Zayed also funds the “Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up,” the major think tank of the Arab League, in Abu Dhabi—described on its website “as the fulfillment of the vision of Sheikh Zayed.” The Zayed Centre holds regular lectures...
Prior to this weekend, Harvard and California were the nation??s only two undefeated men’s heavyweight crews. Now there is just...