Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard from an area that was previously not very productive. Only one boy has not accepted admission in the three years. "There are lots of athletes," Birge says. "One boy has great SAT's in the mid-700's, and was an all-league quarterback and a three-sport athlete. He won all his school's academic prizes. He got a Harvard National...
...tradition, we hear so little talk about courses, except, that is, about exams, "curves," and grades. Harvard, we are told, is a "free marketplace of ideas," an "intellectual community," a "clash of lively minds." But the actual lack of academic talk mocks these noble metaphors of commerce, fellowship and sport. Courses, by and large, are pursued in a social vacuum. It means nothing that students gather in a lecture hall, for they could as well remain in their rooms and watch the show on television. And in the House dining halls--where, we like to pretend, so many ideas...
...animals and artists. "It has never seemed a useful distinction to me to divide the undergraduate body into athletes and non-athletes, as though these were discrete branches of the human species," David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, said recently. "Whether or not a man plays a varsity sport has little to do with his intellectual abilities and interests or his qualities as a social being...
...third type of athlete at Harvard never dies. He is the Charlie Ravenel or the Mark Mullin, who just keeps going ahead in athletics with an interminable drive, determination, and winning enthusiasm for his sport all the way through school. To these people, athletics is a way of life. "My whole life has centered around athletics," Revenel said recently. "I owe everything to sports." He is the first Class Marshal this year, has received a $5,000 scholarship from Corning Glass Company to travel around the world, has been named co-recipient of the Bingham Award for this year...
...Faculty Committee on Athletics has voted to make lacrosse a major sport. The notice came after several recommendations by the Undergraduate Athletic Council for a change is the sport's status...