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...HARVARD has been reaching out to less affluent applicants since the early 1930s, when University President James B. Conant ’14 sought to recruit promising students from schools that normally flew below the Northeast prep radar. Committees of alumni were organized throughout the country to help find candidates for new National Scholarships funded by the College...
...needs to overcome. After mailing acceptance letters, Byerly must convince students from outside Harvard’s upper-middle-class mainstream that there’s a place for them in Cambridge. That’s no easy task for a college widely considered a chilly bastion of the Northeast elite...
Three times a week, at 9 a.m., the doors of the Ritz Tour bus open, and a flood of chattering Chinese tourists pour out, cameras in tow. On a six-day tour of the Northeast, the group works from Niagara Falls to New York City to Boston. They save the best for last. Much-anticipated Harvard Yard is their final stop...
...Pete Wilson of California, an incumbent whose approval rating had sunk to 19% two years ago, still managed a 55% victory over Kathleen Brown. Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, big industrial states that were once Democratic the way Italy is Catholic, all elected Republicans to a second term. In the northeast, where Connecticut and Pennsylvania also went to the Republicans and Maine elected an independent, only Vermont will still have a Democrat in the statehouse come January. And in the Democrat's once solid South, a march to the G.O.P. climaxed with the narrow defeat of Alabama's Democratic Governor James...
...Harvard men’s and women’s cross-country teams concluded their seasons Saturday in the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships at Boston’s Franklin Park. The men finished eighth in the 33-team field, while the women placed ninth among 37 teams. Sophomore Lindsey Scherf placed fifth in the women’s event, qualifying for the NCAA Championships. Scherf paced the Crimson women with a time of 20:34.7, part of a pack of four women within seven seconds of winner Fiona Crombie of Providence. “We were all kind of fighting...