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...Gleason says that Watkins rebelled...
...were in a minority of 1:4 and we were not allowed to do many things we would have liked to do, like try out for The Crimson,” writes Jean Berko Gleason ’53, Watkins’ first-year roommate, in an e-mail...
...couldn’t put up with the foolish rules imposed on us, and had a number of scrapes and near-scrapes with Radcliffe, over such things as staying out too late, or failing to wear a hair net when waiting on table,” Gleason remembers. “I guess that ‘Question authority’ was in her mind long before the radical...
...Gleason says she was immediately struck by Watkins’ intelligence, even as they were just moving into their double in Cabot House and figuring out who would have what bunk...
...recall receiving letters from government agencies—most notably, the National Security Agency—with summer internship offers specifically tied to their performance on the Putnam. Several test-takers mentioned the edge on their graduate school applications they hoped the Putnam would add. Gleason acknowledged the usefulness of performing well in that it “certainly helps people get into graduate school and with scholarships,” while reiterating that this “speed test” is a mere footnote to the impressive records of many Harvard undergraduate mathematicians...