Getting Carded

Want to send a Dartmouth football e-card? Or an e-card from another Ivy League school or sport? Click on this link. (On my Mac it didn't work quite the way it is supposed to, but your mileage may vary.)

The recent Harvard Crimson opinion piece decrying athletics at the Ivy League school has earned a response from a Harvard athlete. His letter to the Crimson includes this:

As a member of the Harvard men’s hockey team, I take exception to Lucy Caldwell’s article (“Are Jocks Necessary?” column, March 7) questioning the necessity of jocks at Harvard.

Harvard’s core creed is really to strive for excellence in everything it does; it only admits the best, brightest, and most talented students in the world. I don’t see why athletics should be an exception here.

Touché ...

Another letter intended to defend sports at Harvard might have been worded a little differently (italics are mine):

(Harvard athletic director Robert) Scalise says he expects Harvard to maintain the best Academic Index in Ivy League men’s basketball despite Tommy Amaker’s new recruits.

Not sure "despite" Tommy Amaker's new recruits is as effective an argument as the writer was hoping to make.