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...using as an example world champion foilist Emily Cross, “who turned down a full scholarship” to Stanford to come and fence for the Crimson.“That’s huge, the fact that somebody’s willing to bypass a full scholarship to a very good school like Stanford to come to Harvard,” Brand says. “Obviously, she felt that our fencing program was on its way up, and she could do something here too to further her fencing career.”He gives credit...
...division boat for the Harvard women’s sailing team to a national title only a few months before, the former co-captain of the Crimson spent the fall winning her third consecutive New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship, all while preparing for her Rhodes Scholarship finalist interviews. She had already almost won the Quantam Women’s Sailor of the Year award as a junior, finishing second, and she had already been named an All-American twice. Now, as her career comes to a close, she can reflect on winning her third such award...
...Knowingly, he predicted a tuition rise last October. Lo and behold, in January the prediction came true, as tuition rose to $1000 for next year. We congratulated Dean Bundy for his oracular powers, and suggested that perhaps tuition should have risen even higher—simultaneously, of course, with scholarship aid. We approved the extension of the Lamont Library hours to midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary—just one week before Librarian Buck announced...
...Soon after publishing this column, in which I raked Kuhls through the fire for dismissing the athletic scholarship argument with the overly simplistic comment that “we don’t admit retards at my school,” I received a backlash of negative responses from our Ivy brethren in the boonies of upstate New York...
...says Bjelland.Harvard has adopted Worth’s pioneering spirit and become one of the first colleges to recruit in Africa, a crucial and largely untapped area, according to Worth.“Robin is fulfilling a long-held dream of opening up opportunities for scholarship and development of future world leaders from throughout the world that Harvard can offer,” Burrows says. BRINGING THE WORLD TO HARVARDToday, Robin Worth has maintained a sense of the importance of education and an international view of the world that she had upon her graduation 25 years ago, as well...