Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard. Moreover, many students and parents may decide that applying to Harvard is not worth the effort. "This rigorous self-selection worries us," Glimp says. Although he sees "no great problem as long as we handle our contacts and the press correctly," Glimp admits, "this could result in less breadth in our applicants...
...Less breadth, obviously, would mean that the whole design of the Harvard admissions program had failed. The outline was suggested by Wilbur J. Bender, '27, former Dean of Admissions, in a letter to unsuccessful applicants in the spring of 1955: "We have proceeded on the belief that in our student body a mixture of diverse talents and interests and personalities and backgrounds, a mixture based on a variety of particular excellences as we found them in individual applicants, will produce the most fruitful and healthy educational environment in which students of widely varying sorts will live and work together...
Doermann says, "If you find that rare person who can talk to and appraise boys with a wide range of backgrounds, a person with breadth and perception who knows enough of what Harvard requires, then the interview works beautifully. It provides an important and different kind of information." But new men on the job or those who lack the necessary breadth may run into difficulty, Doermann says, and another weakness of the interview is that it is a snap judgment. "You have to take interview reports in perspective," he warns, a sentiment with which Glimp would agree...
...wall themselves off into separte groups in terms of their own sets of prejudices and interests," Bender admitted, generalizing on the various group personalities he has observed: "My general impression is that boys with athletic abilities and interests tend to be more broad-minded and have a greater breadth of interests than members of other groups. The self-conscious intellectuals, for example, tend to be more narrow and restricted in their interests, and are usually more arrogant in their approach to problems than are the athletes...
...people according to their degree of uselessness. The part-time lifers must undergo a state of nonbeing or "temporary death" each month. As a result, they live their lives more fully than the productive fulltime lifers, who become sullen drudges. Moral: it is not the length but the breadth and depth of life that matters...