July 28, 2015

The Haverford Connection

The New York Times notices that Haverford College is well represented behind the scenes in Major League Baseball:

Asked about the number of its graduates working in baseball, the college’s president, Kimberly Benston, credited various aspects of the experience at Haverford, which has a defining, student-run honor code. Students at Haverford are self-governing — there are no proctors at exams — and students have membership on all major committees, including the faculty hiring committee.

“Our students develop a feel for people and the nuances of a community,” said Benston, who has taught at the college since 1984. “Those are skills needed to build something like a baseball team. At the same time, running a baseball club has become a highly conceptual and precise art. It takes a combination of social, intuitive and intellectual skills.”

It also seems that smart people play baseball there, and they have built a nice network within the game.

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