Word: cutler
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...substantial group of transfers are students from technical schools who find that "Science is not all of education, and who wish a liberal arts program. Some of these people do a remarkable job at Harvard," Cutler says. "We sometimes take a reformed veteran who has gone in the service from another college," he adds...
...motivations of those who do apply as transfers are closely scrutinized by the Committee on Admissions. The application of a man wanting to transfer from Columbia in order to take classes with a girl at Radcliffe was refused without much hesitation. Eric P. Cutler, Assistant Director of Admissions who is in charge of the transfer docket, says, "We get a lot of applications who are drifting along in their own schools, who have come here and see that people talk about classes. We can't take risks on these people...
...feel out of place at their own college. It believes these people will probably be equally out of place at Harvard. "We get some tragic cases of maladjustment due to the fraternity system, people who either can't get into a fraternity or who are unhappy in their fraternity," Cutler commented...
...those transfers admitted,, almost all come to Harvard the next fall. "The people we do admit stand head and shoulders above the rest." Cutler maintains, "From the present applications, we couldn't get fifty good transfers even if we tried...
...list of those present was almost a Washington Who's Who. It included Brig. General Robert Cutler '16, Special Assistant to the President and toastmaster for the occasion; C. Douglas Dillon '31, Undersecretary of State and chairman of the Program; Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy '25; Percival F. Brundage '14, Director, Bureau of the Budget; and many others...