Word: backdoors
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...western high school students. Most people believe that a larger representation of this class is highly desirable. Harvard's entrance requirements are so rigid and rules as to "conditions" are so severe that few men undertake the examinations. Too many of those who wish to come East prefer the "backdoor method" of entrance, via some other college. In this way the present system completely defeats its own end and secures students whose intellectual ability has not been tested by Harvard standards, a disadvantage both to the college and to the individual...