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First, the entire Harvard community should step back once in a while and realize how lucky it is to have a wealth of quality intercollegiate sports. From ice hockey to tennis to squash to soccer to lacrosse to crew. Crimson teams and athletes have consistently been among the best in...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Stepping Back and Taking Notice | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

The lack of scholarships is not the only hinderance coaches face when trying to recruit athletes. The student-athletes must be expected to perform in the classroom as well as on the court. To facilitate the determination of whether the student is a legitimate Ivy League student, an Academic Index...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Ivy League Basketball: A Shooting Star | 4/27/1988 | See Source »

Academically, Asian-American success shows that even a supposed lack of nonacademic activity is irrelevent to scholastic performance, although the admissions office suggests otherwise. In other areas, one must recognize that Harvard students do not act as they did in high school. Few students performed only one activity in high...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Asian-American Admissions: | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

Yet, Finn said that serious educational problems have arisen over that period. For example, he said that scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) dropped 90 points between 1964 and 1980. And even though he said that 19 points were recovered in the early 1980s, the past two years have...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Education Official Calls Federal Policy Outdated | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

So how to overcome the stifling scholastic ecstacy that courses deleteriously through my youthful veins, and hinders my potential for academic achievement?

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Happiness Principle | 10/1/1987 | See Source »

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