Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Objections? Living at the Quad does not sufficiently introduce freshmen to official life at Harvard? Fine, then Quad the sophomores...
...have more money are able to afford better housing. Why not adopt this approach for housing at Harvard? Undeniably, a suite in Lowell House would get more on the market than one at North House, in Harvard's terms. How about offering those spacious suites to the highest freshmen bidders...
...merit-based system also might be unfair to students who, recovering from a freshmen slump, brought their grades up during their upperclass years. A built-in "Horatio Alger clause" would clearly be in order--entitling those with rising grade point averages to bump slumping students from their rooms...
...seems that neither the present system nor any possible alternative can solve the current inequities. The idealized image of Harvard, peddled to students by the admissions office and the media, by mass and highbrow culture alike, is not an image that encompasses living at the Quad. Freshmen fears--abetted especially by the current lottery system--feed on the disastrous recognition that the Ivy Dream may lie unfulfilled, and lead thousands of people yearly to compete for a fireplace...
...college who started teaching at Harvard in 1965, Marquand says that he often finds students too wrapped up with their future plans. "In general, an anxiety about the future combined with academic anxiety and pressure" often puts too much strain on undergraduates, nothing that this particularly stresses freshmen and seniors. He says he refers about two students a week to UHS for professional counselling when their problems seem to be more serious...