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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admissions at Harvard, both on the undergraduate and graduate level, and in many ways the book reads as a rationalization of the selection process within the Yard. Harvard is the archetypal institution confronting the complex problems of selection at the "right tail"--that is, the last part of a bell curve representing all of society--from which minute percentage the most selective institutions call their members...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Selecting the Best and the Brightest | 6/5/1985 | See Source »

...bell stop Memorial Hall--in the spire that has since burned down--used to ring on the hour, as Memorial Church's bell does now, signifying the end of class periods...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

Then, one day in April 1932, the Class of '35's freshman year, the bell failed to ring...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...turned out that someone had cut the bell clapper loose--and this thing weighted 300 pounds," Ehrenfried says. "As far as I know, no one ever figured out how the thing disappeared in broad daylight...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...Class of 1935, at some of the at least. "broke into the Radcliffe dormitories and rushed though the halls in search of the missing "We want our bell-clapper and we want liver." The Crimson reported at the time. "By this time [in Brattle Square] eggs were flying merrily...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: A Clouded Era's Silver Lining | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

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