Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russians were particularly warned against Moscow's diplomatic cocktail circuit, where, said Pravda darkly, Western spymasters recruit new talent. Warned Pravda: "That was how they got hold of Penkovsky, and the same thing may happen to anyone who, in his blindness, nibbles at the bait the imperialists so lavishly toss out." Izvestia chimed in with an acid-etched portrait of the kind of comrade the imperialists are looking for. Dubbing him "Punkovsky"-for punk-Izvestia reported that this unsavory type cherishes a never-ending stream of gold-embossed invitations to diplomatic receptions, where he can be spotted...
Harvard has made an active effort to recruit more students from poorer schools and from areas that have sent few or no students to Harvard in the past, because they recognize the academic potential that many of these students possess...
...Cotton in his recent article on Harvard basketball, states that the team's poor won-and-lost record is partly due to alumni and admissions office indifference and largely due to poor coaching. Implicit in this criticism is the alarming notion that the alumni and admissions staff should actively recruit basketball players for their own sake...
...common knowledge among Ivy League and eastern coaches that Harvard does not have one basketball player who was actively pursued, as such, by another college. (Unlike Yale and Princeton, Harvard, with very good reason does not permit its coaches to recruit.) In light of this fact, the performance of the basketball team stands as perhaps the most outstanding coaching accomplishment at Harvard this year. The team always appeared well drilled and conditioned. Its spirit was high and in the face of loss after loss (many of them by heartbreakingly close margins) it never lost its organizational integrity, and the individual...
Basketball in the Ivy League is such that one outstanding player can make the difference. As long as the other colleges permit their coaches to recruit (in obvious contravention of the spirit of the Ivy agreement), they will have an advantage. It is to Floyd Wilson's everlasting credit and Harvard's good fortune, that he accepts this fact as part of "coaching at Harvard" and that he works faithfully with those boys who came to Harvard to produce the best team possible. Charles J. Egan, Jr. '54, Chairman, Schools and Scholarship Committee, Harvard Club of Long Island...