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...truth were to be told today, Harvard would probably finish a poor fourth behind Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale in the aggressiveness and enthusiasm of its schoolboy recruiting program. For one thing, Harvard alumni have long been more loyal with their dollars than with the amount of noise put into tub-thumping and attracting of prospective students...
...truth were to be told today, Harvard would probably finish a poor fourth behind Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale in the aggressiveness and enthusiasm of its schoolboy recruiting program. For one thing, Harvard alumni have long been more loyal with their dollars than with the amount of noise put into any kind of tubehumping and attracting of prospective students...
...same time, however, the project carries certain grave dangers. Unleashed alumni who track down only football players could do the College much greater harm than those who overlook the athletes and other schoolboy leaders and hunt solely for scholars. Probably the basic questions to be faced are whether everyone has the same definition of "Balance in the college" and whether everything about Harvard's new program is helping to meet this goal...
Yale follows a similar program, but Bob Kupath takes his swimming team to a Massachusetts prep school for an exhibition meet, and Bob Hall takes Yale movies along when he drops in at Connecticut schoolboy team banquets. Recently Harvard has not felt itself above this sort of salesmanship. The number of coaches' tours is up and it is now quite common to join Yale and the others at the school boy banquets; and the New York Harvard Club this year brought 20 athletes to Cambridge to tour around the College...
...Roman Catholic schoolboy in Burgundy, Roger Buliard dreamed of an adventurous life in the service of Christ. The dream became a dedication. Roger Buliard entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, studied seven years for the priesthood, and at last got a mission station at Coppermine, an Eskimo settlement within the Arctic Circle in the Canadian northwest. For 15 years he roamed the Arctic, forming small congregations, studying Eskimo life and manners, gradually falling in love with the place. Inuk (Eskimo for "I am the man") is the record of his Arctic life, a superb account that blends the impersonal acuteness...