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...benefits, and sent his sons there for the same reason. Academic matters were secondary. The social benefits of Harvard were a reason for Michael Dukakis not to go there. He believes deeply in meritocratic distinctions, which are blurred (if not reversed) by social influence. He went, instead, to the Quaker school Swarthmore, where his love for discipline would be rewarded. The school also gave him a smaller pool in which to establish (as he did) his dominance...
George Bush followed lockstep in his father's path: prep school, Yale, stalwart of the baseball team, Skull and Bones. Dukakis, on the other hand, broke with the expected pattern, deciding against Harvard in favor of Swarthmore, a small Quaker college near Philadelphia. A D in physics dissuaded him from studying medicine. Instead, he threw himself into politics, working for the 1951 election of Philadelphia reformist Mayor Joe Clark, his first taste of squeaky-clean government. Dukakis still did not have much of a social life -- no one remembers a steady girlfriend -- and he did not join any fraternities because...
...Crimson squad surely would like to erase the memory of Judd Damon (5-3) and Chad Smith (3-1), the two Quaker righthanders who stifled the Harvard offense. Damon, in fact, was a nightmare that haunted the Harvard nine in both ends of the twinbill...
...Quakers exploded early, scoring three in the first off of freshman righty Jon Biotti. Yet it was in the second that the Quaker run seemed to deflate the expansive hopes of Harvard...
...lightweight varsity four fared much better than the heavies did yesterday, however, destroying the Quaker four (8:02.5) by a whopping 30.5-second margin with a 7:32 time...