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...worth our notice, nor is our numerical placement worthy of the staff's concern. The entire survey, including the social rating that the staff focuses on, was seriously flawed. Those determining the rating need not have attended Harvard nor even have set foot on the campus. To assign their opinion a grain of salt is generous...
...admissions office tries to assign representatives to their own high schools and others in the area...
Some entryways assign responsibility forevents. Others, like Lewis', generate ideas ontheir...
...cooperation are all respectable actions. But to subvert the system for one's personal ends, while leaving the system intact for everyone else--this is an incredibly questionable course of conduct. In holding that you are entitled to go around the system because of your own personal qualifications, you assign to yourself the right to make the judgements the system was established to handle. When people in the outside world mock Harvard and its pretensions, it is precisely this sort of presumptive claim that bothers them so deeply...
Finally, the Core office has an important duty to consider more carefully the relative popularity of classes and assign classroom locations accordingly. The Warren Court, for example, was overrun by students in 1996 and is again in 1998, both because of its enduring popularity and the Core's failing to put the class in Sanders Theatre, where it should...