Word: deane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oglesby Paul '38, director of admissions for the Med School, attempted to allay the fear that climination of the subcommittee would damage the school's affirmative action program. "We're not changing the goals, we're changing the way they're handled." Paul said. Dr. Robert H. Ebert, former dean of the Med School, said the move would not necessarily mean a decrease in minority acceptance. "Although it could mean that," he added...
...always shared its first-year experiences over meals in the Union. It fact, it has been ten years since the whole freshman class was housed in the Yard, and then it was only fresh men. "I was a freshman in the Yard when that plan was in effect," says Dean Fox, fondly recalling his freshman days. "If you compare the freshman experience at Harvard to that at other colleges, you find we spend a tremendous amount of time and effort on the freshmen," Fox adds, implying that he finds many positive aspects to his plan, which has become known...
...Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, the Fox Plan is a fact of life. "I knew when I arrived it would be five, ten years before the question of messing around with the living system would be brought up again. I've seen no one questioning whether freshmen should live at Eliot and everybody else at North, Moses says...
...Freshmen Dean's Office instituted several programs this year to make freshman year more enjoyable. They issued a series of dinner tickets to proctorial units in hopes that the students would visit all the Houses before the housing lottery. The dean's office sponsored several Sunday suppers, with live entertainment in the Freshman Union, and encouraged intermingling with faculty members and upperclassmen by holding student-faculty dinners...
...chance of receiving anything below choice number eight. In addition, the 12-choice system seemed to promote speculation for choices. Students thought there was a vast difference in one's chances of being assigned to choice one, and those of being placed in choice 12, Ann B. Spence, associate dean of the College, says. "Basically, when you maximize first choices, the chances of getting the last three or four are pretty high," Spence adds...