Word: attracted
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...guidelines allowed a maximum of one-quarter teaching time. First-year graduate students in the sciences are exempted from the regulations because the science departments depend heavily on their direct lab work, and because teaching fellow jobs often form part of the support package offered to attract top graduate students in the sciences to Harvard...
...prestige increases for Harvard, so does its ability to attract top high school athletes, most of whom come here with the belief that the school runs a topnotch sports program...
...back to the drawing boards is where Harvard should go, to come up with some plans for a new swimming pool before the year 2000. Essick has in John Walker one of the best diving coaches in the country, yet it is an almost impossible task for Walker to attract top-flight divers to Cambridge given the lack of depth of the IAB pool. All things being equal, the difference between Princeton's 14 feet of chlorinated water and Harvard's 11 feet is a helluva lot more than three feet...
WRITING A THESIS is probably a good thing to do; without it you get restless, nervous, and wrought up over trifles; with it you get nervous, wrought up over details and are in danger of going stir crazy in front of a typewriter. But since Harvard seems to attract the obsessive-achiever type, goal-oriented, accustomed to accomplishment, writing one is probably a good idea. Writing one in Tommy's Lunch is probably a losing cause but stir craziness is easier to combat than restlessness. Go out drinking (with friends)--the Casablanca for weeknights or Spaghetti Emporium for the afternoon...
...least to keep its intellectual integrity intact and the university offers resources such as the Carpenter Center and the Science Center, that should be made available to anyone who can use them well. The so-called exclusiveness of Radcliffe will be nurtured and not diminished if it cannot attract students diverse in interests and backgrounds...