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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class of 1992 has also set records for the number of minority applicants deciding to enter the College. Next year's freshmen will be 14 percent Asian, 9 percent Black and 5 percent Hispanic...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Freshman Class Sets Application Records | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

While administrators toyed with measures aimed at preventing imbalances in the outcomes of future housing lotteries, this year's procedure continued in its three-year-old format. Under that current system, freshmen receive their lottery numbers from the housing office and then give the office their first three house choices. The College then uses a system designed to maximize the number of students who receive their first choice...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: House System Faulted for Lack of Diversity | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...Better than ever" was how Housing Officer Lisa M. Colvin described this year's lottery, which was 10 days shorter than last year's 27-day process. Fewer freshmen called in with problems or complaints than in years past, Colvin said...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: House System Faulted for Lack of Diversity | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...freshman week was any indication, Harvard has failed miserably. The purpose of assigning reading to all incoming freshmen was to give our diverse class something in common--a subject about which every entering student, regardless of background, could talk during the first weeks of the year. My first day here, I found myself standing in the Yard with 10 equally tense freshmen. Henry Adams quickly became a topic of conversation. "Did anyone here do the summer reading?" asked one. "No, no way" each said in turn with perverse pride...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: The Education of Henry Adams, 1988 | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...make the beds in Currier House, andall of the freshmen workers got lost in thetunnels," says Tim L. Hurley '90, the linencaptain...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Doing Harvard's Dirty Work | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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