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...idea of what the admissions office is looking for in potential Harvard students: applicants who will not only be academically successful but who will also carry well the Harvard name. The admissions officer who oversees all applicants from my area told me Harvard wants more than students who scored 1600s on the SAT. "Everyone can do the work," she commented, "but who is going to be a leader?" Most of the people who apply to this school could be Harvard students; the reason we are here is that the admissions committee saw in us the potential to have an impact...
Gomes quoted New England's First Fruits, a book written by an anonymous author during the mid-1600s to attract European investors to the colonial effort. "The Indians were to be the first fruits of a great general harvest," he said. "They were to be the vanguard of the reformation of the world...
Perhaps the single most ludicrous statement in Kaufman's piece, though, was his claim that life "on this campus" for minority students, in particular blacks, is "not always such a pleasant experience." What twaddle! Show me Harvard's segregated lunch counters. Show me the poor ghetto youths with 1600s on their SAT's who are kept out of here. Show me the Harvard chapter...
...unusual for us to consider works of the past far superior to works of the present. In the 19th century, an American education was only rounded out by study in Europe, an older civilization than the colonies. In the 1600s, scholars in Europe, to become part of the educated elite, had to study the ancient classics in Greek and Latin. Even before that, when the Romans had conquered the Greeks, who had an older and more established culture, they hired Greek tutors to educate their young aristocrats. Harvard only continues this tradition with Shakespeare, Rome of Augustus, "Greek Heroes...
Orientation week is a seven-day cocktail party. It's a homework-free romp through the Yard. It's an opportunity to bond with geniuses who got 1600s on their SATs and roommates who snorkle, write award-winning poetry and splice genes in their free time. It's along, strange trip that's completely forgotten a month later...