Word: recruited
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...problem" with minority athletes, whatever its extent, begins before students actually arrive on campus. Mere precisely, it begins with the students who never make it to Harvard. To the chagrin of some football team partisans. Harvard has never offered specifically athletic scholarships. In the battle of dollars to recruit top high school athletes. Harvard is literally unarmed...
Counting unsuccessful preliminary feelers. Rosovsky estimated in his annual report for 1979-80 that the Faculty is able to recruit its "real first choice" about half the time...
Malin has been assistant dean of admissions and financial aid since 1977--a job that involves traveling to recruit, screening the regions of Washington, D.C. and Southern California for admits, and giving special attention to foreigners. He didn't start working with the Cosmos until 1978, when a bizarre coincidence brought up his name in a New York taxicab conversation between a Lipton tea magnate of his acquaintance and the Cosmos director of television coverage. Since then, the soccer job has been what he calls his "weekend getaway," peaking over the summer with the soccer season and necessitating an intimate...
...invited about 200 organizations said Counselor for Communications John Noble '75, who cited "cutbacks in the budgets for recruiting" and a cable television convention the same day as the two biggest reasons for the disappointing turnout. Even most of the 109 business which recruit regularly through the OCS declined the invitation...
Advocates often showed a curious blend of naivete and arrogance. There was a failure initially to recruit nonworking and minority women. Nonprofessional pink-collar workers felt put down. Women who had "made it" economically also felt estranged. When it came to lobbying legislators, ERA supporters could be appallingly inept. In Illinois, a woman offered a legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state...