Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contracted beriberi from living on soda crackers in college, never earned more than $8,500 a year, never took a loan. He was precious, persnickety, sometimes naive. He refused to recruit players or give athletic scholarships. "I would rather lose every game than win one by unfair means," he said. Over the years Amos Alonzo Stagg won a fantastic 310 games - and invented just about everything there is to football today...
Weiner hopes to recruit dorm captains at both Harvard and Radcliffe. The captains will distribute fact sheets, but their principal task will be to solicit as many original letters as possible. "We have been assured that such letters are read and considered in Washington," Weiner said...
...keen competition to recruit the best brainpower on campus, U.S. corporations for some years have been offering successively bigger salaries, better benefits and brighter promises of fast promotion. Pay offers this year are up another 2½% to 4% , to an average $6,375 for seniors in nontechnical fields and $7,560 for engineers and other technicians. Last week, with the recruiting season reaching its peak, most of the Grade A or B collegians already had several feelers or firm offers...
About two-thirds of the major U.S. corporations now stake some of their recruits to advanced degrees. Bell Labs, RCA and other companies offer a combination work-study program. The recruit puts in two days a week at the company, studies three days at a nearby university, and collects $6,000 to $10,000 a year. For just taking a temporary job at Hughes Aircraft last summer, Engineering Student Fred Luconi was staked by the company to a fifth year at M.I.T.-with no strings attached...
...root of Harvard fencing problems is that it simply isn't considered a very important sport here, and it is impossible to compete with the New York schools, especially Columbia, which recruit the best fencers in the city every year...