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...Peter" is a "double leg"-both his mother and father went to Brown. He is unexciting but unobjectionable, and his grades and scores are good. "We're trapped," sighs a committee member. There is laughter around the table, but no one doubts that keeping the alumni happy is worth it. After all, they pay for Brown's quality. Peter gets an "A 83"-A for admit; the 83 warns that a lop-off is still possible when Rogers re-examines legacy applications in April. The committee moves on to "John": "Third in his class, 730 verbal, a genuine...
Brown may stress academics, but it likes jocks, too, especially after suffering with a football team that went 9-58-2 in the Ivy League during the '60s. At Rogers' elbow are "depth charts" listing athletes by sport, the position they play and ranking by Brown coaches, usually on a scale of 1 to 6. There are also depth charts for alumni children, music, art, theater. The music department, for instance, rates oboists and violinists by ability and the orchestra's need for them. That evening Rogers meets with the hockey coach to review 82 prospects. Picking...
...means "Burning for Brown," and it counts. Until now, because of the almost immutable pecking order of colleges, only about half the students admitted actually enrolled at Brown. The rest went to schools like Princeton, Yale and Harvard, which has about a 75% "yield." But lately Brown has become very popular. At a time when the end of the baby boom spells a declining applicant pool, the school's applications have jumped 25% in two years. With good reason. Brown works hard to sell itself. The 16 members of the admissions committee are young, diverse, impressive-the kind...
DIED. Jean Stafford, 63, caustic lady of letters whose tautly structured short stories won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in White Plains, N.Y. Acclaimed for her first novel, Boston Adventure, at age 29, Stafford went on to publish two more novels, numerous short stories and many nonfiction works. The widow of Press Critic A.J. Liebling and a sharp wit in conversation and prose, Stafford said: "I write for myself and God and a few close friends...
...Harvard bats, which had been much too passive in the first two Northern contests (Crimson batters had struck out a total of 19 times against UMass and Princeton, but 11 of those fannings came on called third strikes), went berserk in the sixth inning, as the hitters turned Pearl Harbor on the Horsehide and scored six runs to dispatch Navy's 1-0 lead...