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same standards <strong>of</strong> gregariousness.University admissions <strong>of</strong>ficers lookednot for the most exceptional candidates,but for the most extroverted. Harvard’sprovost Paul Buck declared <strong>in</strong> the late1940s that Harvard should reject the“sensitive, neurotic” type and the“<strong>in</strong>tellectually over-stimulated” <strong>in</strong> favor<strong>of</strong> boys <strong>of</strong> the “healthy extrovert k<strong>in</strong>d.”In 1950, Yale’s president, Alfred WhitneyGriswold, declared that the idealYalie was not a “beetle-browed, highlyspecialized <strong>in</strong>tellectual, but a wellroundedman.” Another dean toldWhyte that “<strong>in</strong> screen<strong>in</strong>g applicationsfrom secondary schools he felt it wasonly <strong>com</strong>mon sense to take <strong>in</strong>to accountnot only what the collegewanted, but what, four years later, corporations’recruiters would want. ‘<strong>The</strong>ylike a pretty gregarious, active type,’ hesaid. ‘So we f<strong>in</strong>d that the best man is92/929

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