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...Warner Bros. cartoonists called their dilapidated digs. He directed his first short, The Night Watchman, in 1938. But it took a wartime assignment to bring out the comic fatalist in Jones. With Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, he hatched the Private Snafu shorts--irreverent sketches of an Army recruit whose laziness and general bad attitude forever threaten to hand victory to Hitler and Tojo. By war's end, Jones was infusing the brisk sauciness of these cartoons into his civilian work...
...team has also taken advantage of its higher visibility to recruit from outside the freshman and even the undergraduate ranks...
This proposed change comes months after a similar reduction in the number of recruit admissions for the New England Small College Athletic Conference, which includes Amherst, Williams and Bowdoin. The reduction comes within a year of the publication of The Game of Life, a book by James L. Shulman and former Princeton President William G. Bowen, who claim that athletes enjoy a substantial advantage in admissions beyond other targeted groups...
After producing just one player in the past two years who has averaged ten minutes per game, the Harvard men’s basketball program has officially landed its most highly-touted recruit since Dan Clemente...
...more meritocratic than any of its Ivy League rivals, and so it admits a far more talented incoming class every year. Harvard students may surpass Stanford students in academic and extracurricular achievement. However, Stanford, by being sensibly meritocratic in all areas of admission, absolutely dominates Harvard by attempting to recruit the very best athletes in nearly every sport...