Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moth Bags for Mossbacks. To keep the press happy, Romagna has performed prodigies of rapid transcription. Romagna's wooden attache case, custom-built by the White House carpentry shop, is a portable desk, but in a pinch, Romagna has been known to recruit the nearest back for the same purpose. Recording presidential talks in the White House rose garden -a favorite informal speaking site-is Romagna's pet chore: "Provided the speech is not too long, I can take it down, run the 50 yards to my office and transcribe it. dash into the mimeo room and have...
...simply a feeble effort to put a respectable face on things. The parallel with the Ivy League is this: it is just as hypocritical for Ohio State to refuse to go to the Rose Bowl as it is for Harvard and the Ivies to say they don't recruit (in the "evil" sense of the word...
...Barnaby in his letter says that his tennis and squash teams are not recruited, and that therefore Harvard does not recruit. But the College does go after football players, and it is quite easy to cite "chapter and verse...
...totally unrealistic to maintain that Harvard does not recruit, that its alumni do not in fact value athletic ability over other talents. In the past week, two high Administration officials have privately admitted that the College is not true-blue in this respect. And yet, if there should be shame attached to these facts, it should not arise from the premise that recruiting is evil--although perhaps it is. The guilt is that Harvard continues to proclaim its innocence publicly, as in Mr. Barnaby's letter...
This is not to say Harvard should or should not recruit. Rather, it is to suggest that honesty be adopted as a policy for running an athletic program. It is to request that Harvard stop excusing below-par performances by its teams by saying it can't recruit. Of course, admission to Harvard requires intelligence; but there is no immediately evident proof that smart athletes are worse than dumb ones...