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Participating in ROTC-in-exile makes a difficult task all the more difficult. Drawn by a sense of duty to their country or by the ROTC scholarship that lets students go to pricey schools, ROTC cadets are certainly some of the most committed people at Harvard. In addition to taking a full slate of Harvard classes, the cadets hop on a shuttle van daily at about 6 am to make the trek to MIT. There, they participate in grueling physical drills as well as classes in military science...
...love doing what I do, because there is this space waiting to be filled…between literature and some of the rigor of scholarship,” he says...
Mark Watson, Howell, discovers that the only scholarship left to Harvard is for black students. In order to get the scholarship, he paints his face a dark shade of khaki. He gets the scholarship, forcing him to go to Harvard as an African American. Soon, he meets and falls for a black girl. Racial misunderstandings lead to meaningful hilarity! In one memorable scene, Professor Banks, played by Jones, calls for Mark Watson, to which Howell responds “Right on.” Oh, well, then, he must be black! It is essentially the opposite of Eddie Murphy?...
...People who want to be teachers here should get a four-year scholarship,” he said...
Unlike most Harvard applicants, who are deciding between Harvard and similarly highly-ranked schools based on academics, social life and extracurriculars, many recruited athletes receive full scholarship offers from colleges that demand an early commitment to attend. “Many kids we recruit are not making decisions on Harvard versus another Ivy,” says baseball head coach Joe Walsh. “It’s Harvard versus a scholarship school, and having to pay tuition or not. When a kid is 17 or 18, we’re trying to get him to look...