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Officials at Princeton have taken credit for the recent increase. "We attempted to recruit women energetically this fall, and from the increased female applicant numbers one could conclude that the increase is due to our recruitment efforts," Princeton's Dean of Admission Anthony Cummings told the campus daily. GEORGETOWN...
Furthermore, we might inquire as to why the hundreds of resentful "strictly academic students" who apparently graduate from Harvard every year have not put forth a similar effort into recruiting their own kind. Introverts don't recruit anybody because introverts don't care about other introverts whereas extroverts seek out other extroverts and generally tolerate introverts. Harvard puts up with a few hundred "pure academic students" every year to ensure that those who lock themselves up in their little libraries or laboratories and eventually do make a contribution to mankind through a lifetime of uninterrupted self-application can make...
...except for these difficulties, Harvard "is not a bad place to recruit for," according to Tomassoni. "We can go anywhere and people have heard...
...always the underdog when it comes to Harvard," Yale Coach Tim Taylor says. "If Harvard is on top of [the recruit's] list, there's nothing I can do about...
...Going one-on-one with Harvard for a recruit, we probably wouldn't get him unless he really liked the rural area or didn't want to move far from home," St. Lawrence Coach Joe Marsh says. "Harvard gets the cream of the crop. We tend to get some good kids in the Ottawa Valley and Toronto areas...