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...TIME, Nov. 8, 1963). Among his duties will be directing workshops to help prospective students overcome high school deficiencies and revamping the freshman curriculum. "If you do the job right in the freshman year, you put pressure on the whole college," he explains. His successor will be Fred L. Glimp, 41, who has been Harvard dean of admissions since...
...Glimp, in other words, is more...
...Glimp has always excelled at this kind of persuasion. He doesn't do it intentionally or overtly; it's just that what he says and the way he says it command attention...
...process begins with Glimp's comments as a "reader" of several folders. (Each gets two or three formal readings in which the applicants are ranked on the 1 to 6 scale in several categories and the contents are summarized.) "He knows how to say things," a colleague remarked. "Most people will tell you someone is 'well-rounnded.' I remember Freddie once writing that a fellow he liked who was strong in only one or two areas was 'spear-headed.' It turned a possible criticism nicely into praise...
...reading stage this year is over. Beginning tomorrow, the 23 voting members of the Admissions and Scholarships Committee (including several Faculty members) sit down for the month of talks in which the final decisions are made. If past years are any indication, Glimp will be persuasive here...