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...Class of 1952 was one of the last classes to support large numbers of returning veterans. It was not uncommon in a first-year dorm to see a 25-year-old veteran living next door to a 17-year-old. But numbers were down from previous years: just 11 percent of the Class had been in combat, compared with more than half just two years previously...
...letter came from Harvard Law School, where Gong had just failed his first-year exams, and it said that he would not be invited back to Harvard. In fact, it said, Gong would “never become a lawyer...
Grades at Harvard have consistently risen throughout the past century; today, 50 percent of grades are either As or A-minuses. By all accounts, the quality of students at Harvard has increased; admissions are more selective than ever, with the first-year class chosen from among tens of thousands of applicants from dozens of countries. But student improvement alone cannot account for such a massive increase in grades. Admitted students’ SAT scores have increased only marginally over the last 15 years, for example, while Harvard’s average GPA increased a full point over the same period...
Muirhead took Sandel’s Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice” as a first-year student at the College and later taught the course as a Harvard graduate student...
DeGreeff has taught that ethic to his students—six of whom have themselves become first-year proctors...