Word: actioner
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Harvard received 6,042 early action applications by the November 1 deadline, 31.8 percent more than last year. The numbers reflect especially large increases in the number of women applicants, up 34.6 percent--though women still make up slightly less than half the pool--and applicants from the Midwest, up 43 percent from last year...
Fitzsimmons said the admissions staff has been working hard on diversity recruiting. This week's numbers are particularly promising since the office recognizes that students who choose early action have usually benefited from more individual counseling in their high schools--and are usually more affluent and more white...
...Although this play puts a rather original twist on the experience of the war, it lacks much in its execution. The blocking is overdone-- there is a constant cycle of walking back and forth and sitting down and getting up that detracts from the action of the play. There are several scenes in which nothing really happens except that the characters circle around the stage and come back to where they started. Lengthy pauses are another shortcoming. There is one point in which some Nazi guards stand in front of a bench for about five minutes without a single word...
...play does pick up in the end, in the sense that it goes from basically no plot to more plot. Some interesting issues of child-parent relations are raised when the German family's child turns his own parents in to the Nazis. This action raises a lot of questions about the son's motivations for revealing that his parents are in league against the Nazis...
Harvard's top forward line of Shewchuk (5, 2), sophomore center Jen Botterill (3, 4) and junior winger Angie Francisco (1, 5) combined for 20 points last weekend as the Crimson began the season with wins at Wisconsin and then-No. 5 Minnesota. Most of the action should take place in the Dartmouth zone, where Harvard will test Big Green junior goaltender Meaghan Cahill...