Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play the piano, you don't have new boots, you don't get. As on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffie and you have synthetic mind and you fuse all these friends into one Other who does better and has more. It's a rat race, but the rats are on a treadmill and the cheese is imaginary...
...morning that she has a day to do with as she wishes. Studying is not a free and personal thing but a compulsory activity by which an atom holds its place in the mass. Everyone studies all the time and worries whether everyone else isn't studying better, another imaginary cheese mistake. "Are you working again?" people ask each other in deprecation. It worries them to see others working, especially if they seem to be enjoying...
...better do our exercises...
...votes the remaining ballots with his name on them are given to the "number two" candidate marked on each ballot. The ballots of candidates who have the fewest "number one" votes are also given to the "number two" candidates. The system is not simple; it usually takes the better part of a week to calculate the nine winners of council seats...
...reason for Harvard's shrouding of the numbers in secrecy has been the desire to prevent the higher rated students from blabbering. "My PRL is better than your PRL." and the like. "It would be unhealthy to brand people." one senior tutor explained...