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...Besides, "a little salt-and-pepper" kept the place exciting, reported Bruce Harriman '50--a bomber captain in Europe who entered Harvard in the summer...
...Some of us had some very difficult experiences [in the war] and either consciously or unconsciously we were looking for answers," Harriman says. "War was a very unsettling experience...
...veterans tended to congregate with each other. But there was no sense of isolation," Harriman says. "There wasn't a real gap, a real separation...
...will be wildly ironic if the end result of the attempt to replace the Wasp elite with a new one of philosopher-kings is, instead, a return of the plutocracy that was upended by the Wasps a century ago. Many of the best-known Wasp grandees (like Averell Harriman) spent their life trying to undo what their plutocrat fathers had done. The creators of the succeeding admissions-test elite wanted to take decision-making power about who got to the top away from the marketplace and give it to the schools. If the country has decided it would be neat...
...expect that athletes, like any cohesive group of students, discuss their academic options, including concentration choices, with each other, which might explain the concentration of football players within a small set of concentrations," Harriman says...