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same standards of gregariousness.
University admissions officers looked
not for the most exceptional candidates,
but for the most extroverted. Harvard’s
provost Paul Buck declared in the late
1940s that Harvard should reject the
“sensitive, neurotic” type and the
“intellectually over-stimulated” in favor
of boys of the “healthy extrovert kind.”
In 1950, Yale’s president, Alfred Whitney
Griswold, declared that the ideal
Yalie was not a “beetle-browed, highly
specialized intellectual, but a wellrounded
man.” Another dean told
Whyte that “in screening applications
from secondary schools he felt it was
only common sense to take into account
not only what the college
wanted, but what, four years later, corporations’
recruiters would want. ‘They
like a pretty gregarious, active type,’ he
said. ‘So we find that the best man is
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