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...nearly 2000 fireplaces in undergraduate houses.. Never mind that significantly more drug-addled generations than our own had used their fireplaces without incident; never mind that everybody’s mental image of Harvard consists of young men named things like “Chauncey?? and “Trip” quaffing hot toddies in front of blazing fires. When we returned to school this fall, we found our fireplaces empty, and our mantels defaced by ill-designed stickers. Upon returning to campus last year, I bought a Duraflame; this year, I bought...
...money and privilege—directly descended from Harvard’s second president, Charles Chauncey??and seemed an unlikely ally in the fight to equalize admissions. But he believed in the power of testing to make higher education available to as many talented students as possible...
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