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...thought he'd be a tough recruit," Reycroft says. "Harvard was graduating both of their varsity goalies and we had our starting goalie coming back...
...closest Harvard pulled was 40-25, when a 10-footer by JV recruit Kevin Collins capped an 8-0 Crimson run with 12:59 remaining in the contest...
...their scramble to recruit star athletes and keep them in school, many colleges condone low academic standards for jocks. Last week an Atlanta federal jury served notice that the practice can be mighty costly. The case involved the University of Georgia and Jan H. Kemp, an assistant professor in the school's remedial-studies program. More than four years ago Kemp, then 32, complained that nine football players, all with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star...
...what of the future of any little liberal arts college, broke or flush, in the day of M.B.A.s and corporate specialization? "Big corporations won't come to small liberal arts colleges to recruit," Ponder laments. "They want engineering students." Nonetheless, he has a plan: "We will call attention to our own, a person who can read, write, spell, think. You can teach him the technique of running your shop...
Other peculiarities cropped up. In the Manila dockside slum of Tondo, teachers at the Imelda Marcos Elementary School complained that they were being asked to recruit ten voters each for Marcos. Well before the voting began, Marcos operatives in northerly Quezon City were openly offering indigents money to fill out their ballots in advance...