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...despite this rosy picture, some other statistics point to a potentially troubling trend in Harvard athletics. Although roughly 250 students are recruited to play varsity athletics every year, that number steadily decreases over the four years of a given recruit class. For instance, there are currently 256 freshman recruits in varsity sports, 244 sophomores, 229 juniors and 205 seniors. For certain sports, like football, the drop is more dramatic—going from a recruit class of 35 freshmen to only 23 seniors...
...council unanimously passed a measure stipulating that the city will continue to ensure a full salary for “any city employee, police or fire recruit currently in academy training” if they should go off to military training...
Dougherty said he has also tried to recruit individual Boston high schools rather than relying on the library system to advertise to students, but has met with success only at a public charter school...
...constant reminder of a mission far greater than individual sorrows or insecurities. Since the end of the cold war, old-line soldiers have grumbled that the military's warrior ethos has been lost. In the 1990s the Navy was ridiculed for giving "blue cards" to basic-training recruits to help them deal with stress. (When a recruit was beginning to feel a bit blue, he would hand the card to a trainer...
...students to MIT, the participation of ROTC students in ceremonial activities (such as the color guard at football games), the listing of ROTC as an official Harvard extracurricular activity, the inclusion of credit earned in ROTC classes on students’ transcripts and the approval of ROTC units to recruit and poster on campus...