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...Crimson worried about its Radcliffe correspondents, the administration about Communist infiltration and the Student Council about the generally unformed and uncodified state of rules for extracurricular activities...
They may spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
...could include other, more general observations: that most friendship circles fall within the same tax bracket, that most student government "progressives" have never spent an hour volunteering at a shelter, and that most of our fellow students would readily stab us in the back in order to climb the extracurricular ladder. It is true that my indictment does not impugn every individual here. But, I am deeply certain that my portrait does accurately represent the culture of Harvard...
House Experience is the most extensive Harvard-related section, coming in at nine questions and one free response. Compare that to the four-question Extracurricular Activities section (which has no free response), which for many of us might have had greater influence on our Harvard experiences than our House life, however memorable the latter might...
...senior tutors, tutors and Senior Common Room members were to them, but it is also important to ask us where we spent the bulk of our time, and what role we think the Houses play in student life now, as opposed to 40 years ago, and in comparison to extracurricular activities. Additionally, there are no specific references to randomization on the survey, so a question asking "on a scale of 1-5, to what degree has randomization influenced your House experience?" might be in order...