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...find a spare bedroom, an extra tennis racquet. Days were crammed with sailing and tennis at the River Club, fierce games of backgammon and Scrabble at night. After Prescott Bush Sr., the imposing (6 ft. 4 in.) patriarch, arrived by sleeper car from Manhattan on the weekends, he would recruit a vocal quartet from the assembled company for after-dinner harmonizing. Family Friend Bill Truesdale describes those summers: "It's hard to imagine anything better...
...fact, helping Harvard recruit women has been a major goal of her administration, and she has watched the number of female faculty members rise to 7 percent of all senior faculty members and about 26 percent of junior faculty members...
University officials say they are 52 in number. Student activists disagree, claiming the official figure is twice the accurate count. The point at which the administrators and students converge, however, is that the number of minority faculty members is shamefully low and Harvard must improve its efforts to recruit more...
...size of the minority faculty became a central point of student activism this year in the College and at the Law School. The Minority Students Alliance--an undergraduate organization--released a report in April charging that the University has failed to actively recruit minorities and calling on Harvard to investigate a "comprehensive plan" to attract minority scholars. The report also says the University is receiving fewer applications than in previous years. And at the Law School, about 50 Black students held a 24-hour sit-in in protest of the lack of minority faculty...
...recruit out of Concord High School, he had already established himself as one of top young fencers by winning an under-19 championship...