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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity defense has tightened up in recent games. With Lanny Keyes, Bron Thayer, and Mike Adair in the line-up, the Crimson was successful in 14 out of 20 clears against Tufts, and might be able to hold the Dartmouth attack in close check...
...every way the cost of "going away to college" is leap-frogging. This year, for example, Harvard's tuition shot up 25 per cent, and room rents go up 15 per cent next term. Many families--especially those with more than one child away at school--are running close to the financial margin, and commuting is a decidedly less expensive way to attend college...
...course, this suggests that commuting students are not, on the whole, as bright as their classmates, and such seems to be the case. According to Dean Bender, the average commuter has a lower Predicted Rank List than the average resident, and with only about 16 major "feeder schools" close enough to send their graduates to the College, the number of qualified applicants from this area appears limited...
Most students, however, emphasized, and listed among them: "time wasted traveling," "out of touch with classmates," "trouble finding parking places," "lack of close association with students of different backgrounds," "daily contact with family often cumbersome," "sense of isolation," "lack of intellectual atmosphere," "feeling as though I were still attending high school," "nearly zero contact with the faculty," and "inability to make full use of Lamont...
...While we were straining for victory, just close to the finish, a girl in the other boat lost her footing. I mean, her feet slipped out of her stirrups, or whatever you call those things, and she caught a crab. We won, just because of that...