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...student-athlete (a term he puts within quotation marks, as if it is either a falsehood or an oxymoron). On what does he base his unfavorable estimation of Harvard athletics? He admits that he "[has] yet to read about Harvard's recruiting and admissions practices for potential big-sport athletes." The story he relates regarding the "anti-intellectual" attitude of Harvard athletes is "undocumented." In the face of the writer's admitted ignorance on the subject, how does he reach his conclusions? Obviously, the source of Kurzman's information is "common knowledge," hardly a basis for responsible writing. Kurzman cannot...
Aside from the abstract merits of sports, I believe that there is nothing frivolous about students exhibiting enthusiastic support for their teams. Although it seems Kurzman would prefer that students continue to wallow in the self-absorbed reserve that permeates this campus, enthusiasm for athletics provides students with a needed release from the tensions of Harvard life. Damn his notion that such enthusiasm is "frivolous;" we're college students and we'll never have the opportunity to be frivolous again! If Kurzman believes there is no place for frivolity in the life of a serious intellectual then he has obviously...
Harvard Coach Harry Parker knows that in a sport where split seconds determine races and a myriad of unpredictable factors can determine split seconds, last year's victories don't necessarily count for much...
Great, great players on a great, great team. A team that came within a single goal of claiming Harvard's first NCAA team title in any sport in 82 years...
Baseball has always been a gentleman's sport...