Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This fall, a few more freshmen will be coming to Harvard from the South and Far West than last year came from those areas. But otherwise geographical distribution remains the same as last year. Nearly every state and a host of foreign countries are represented in the freshman class...
...first non-graduate of Harvard College to become college dean. He received both his A.B. and I'h.D. from U.C.L.A. He has authored or edited several books on American Foreign policy and general American history...
...professors, artists, or writers. It helps to have gone to one of the progressive private schools, where standards are predominantly individualistic and intellectual, rather than social. (With girls' schools these are more easily distinguished than with boys.) And it is useful to have lived in a college town, a foreign country, or a sophisticated urban community; to have applied to a very small number of progressive and stiff colleges, like Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, and so forth...
Upper level English courses contain many of these girls, as do courses in creative writing, foreign languages, and the other humanities. They rarely participate in extracurricular activities, with the exception of creative arts. When they do act, write, paint, or play instruments, it is usually extremely well. Probably they wrote poetry when they were young...
...book like croutons in a steaming onion soup. The word bourgeois first appeared (as burgensis) in a 1007 charter establishing the free city of Loches. As a result of Versailles banquets, Louis XIV's stomach was found at his death to be twice normal size. The French Foreign Ministry spends $4,000,000 annually in secret funds, allegedly on payoffs. President Georges Pompidou pays rent on his He Saint-Louis apartment to the Rothschilds, who bought it for him when he lacked the cash. Sometimes a colorful morsel proves slippery-those famous chestnuts that, according to the author, canopy...