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...name every college in the Ivy League. He believes that an aura of mystery surrounds Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and Columbia. He hopes his guide will help prospective students take an inside look at the Ivy League so that they might be able to dispel, or in some cases confirm, rumors that are constantly circulating about the eight colleges...
...taken the time to read it all, but he’s not the only one. The main changes to the Wikipedia article which earned it its ‘disputed’ label were made by a “a current student” trying to dispel the “common misperception…that schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Stanford are pretty much interchangeable with Harvard.” (Harvard, he or she suggested, is in fact far better.)We also seem overrepresented in the numbers of our critics. In response to the section...
...almost have a professional obligation, at this point, to do what you can to dispel this misinformation that’s being perpetrated on the American public,” Hanken says...
...Many promising candidates don’t apply based on stereotypes,” says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. Byerly’s outreach program seeks to dispel these darker aspects of the Harvard myth: that the University is a leisure-class training ground where only the wealthiest are welcome. The new recruiting techniques, such as targeting low-income applicants by zip code and paying personal visits to students in economically depressed regions, aim to make Harvard’s resources appear more accessible to the working class...
What I haven’t yet managed, though, is to dispel the perception that this is the best part of the job. It is true that sportswriters, and even sportswriting interns, have access to players that fans can only dream of. So yes, I’ve interviewed future Hall of Famers. And yes, I’ve seen them naked. But no, it wasn’t the least bit erotic...