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Then there is "diversity." Jewett defines the operation of this concept as "trying to attract into the applicant pool people who wouldn't normally apply; people from socio-economic backgrounds whose horizons wouldn't normally include Harvard." As far as quotas are concerned, "diversity as practiced at Harvard has no quotas, says Jewett. "There is no downside protection for the percentages of minorities in any class," he says, adding that the percentages of any group depends largely on their percentage in the applicant pool...
Larry Brown is the starting quarterback for the Harvard football team. He may also very well be the finest right-handed pitcher ever to play for the Crimson. They'd laugh at his running ability if he tried to operate the Wishbone offense at Oklahoma. They wouldn't laugh at his quick sophisticated humor in Tuscaloosa. He's articulate, open-minded, zany, and dedicated without having to refer every five seconds to "his Maker." Larry Brown is the Harvard athlete...
Those daily briefings and meetings and handshakings and constant questions from the press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
Harris fell four stories before he was able to grab another rope dangling nearby. The rope burned his hands, but he hung on as he slid down it. "I could see the hide coming off my hands," Harris said later, "but I figured if I held on I wouldn't be finished...
...Advocate--A literary magazine that operates out of a charming little building near Kirkland House, this is one of the oldest continuous publications around. Lots of self-proclaimed artsy-intellectual types who wouldn't be caught dead without their New Yorker. They publish four or five times per year, and most of the stuff is good, with both occasional stinkers and outrageously good pieces. Oh yeah, the Advocate's parties are the greatest...