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Horn refuses to recruit to keep the well of talent full, saying flatly that "I will not go out and search for sailors. "Rather, he says, the team record stays phenomenal because its strong reputation and tradition continue to draw the best sailors He added. "If people are interested in Harvard and sailing. I am interested in them...
Japanese students have a name for that annual examination rite: shiken jigoku-"examination hell." Each year some 700,000 students (32% of Japanese high school graduates) go on to college, but a candidate may apply to only one top university. Because government ministries and top firms all recruit from a handful of universities, having to settle for a low-ranking institution is an almost irreversible disaster. The thousands of students who do not get accepted at the one university of their choice spend a year, sometimes even two, in cram schools preparing to try again. These crammers are called ronin...
...coaches did not recruit heavily for promising freshmen. Harvard coach Bruce Munro, Gunnoe recalls, "didn't recruit in any way, shape of fashion." Instead it was Associate Dean Burris Young, then an English teacher at St. Paul's who encouraged Gunnoe to apply. Ironically, Gunnoe lived in Mass Hall his first year, a members of the last class of freshman to live there before Young took up his ongoing residence there...
Another area of significant improvement over recent years has been the ability of coaches to recruit athletes, "I can't imagine someone coming here with an interest in track, seeing that indoor track, and not being impressed by it," McCurdy said...
...long age, Harvard was not even a national school. At the turn of the century, most undergraduates were New Englanders and it was no until the 1930's that the University went out of its way to recruit students from distant states...