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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agonizing, seemingly irrational process, which only works if the men on the admissions committee have faith in it. And they do. "If you turn this many people away, you've got to believe you have a reason for it," Peterson says. "I think this is a very effective system...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Admissions: 'Personal' Rating Is Crucial | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Students for a Democratic Society), or row innumerable strokes up and down the Charles for the freshman crew team. The Dean's Office views over involvement with a single activity as a great freshman problem. One sophomore, after completing a very non-academic freshman year, said last year. I got so involved with the radio station that after a few months there was no perspective left in my daily life; I wanted to give it up and start living again. "A freshman who had spent much of the year "working" (i.e., studying) declared, "I finally realized two cardinal rules about...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Brass Tacks The Freshman Dean's Office | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Party, Mrs. Swing was a familiar figure in picket lines on both sides of the Atlantic during and after World War I. Arrested for leading a suffragette demonstration at the White House in 1917, she countered by staging an eight-day hunger strike in jail, was released and immediately got herself arrested again in Boston. In the 1920s she carried her campaign to France (jail again) and to England, where she enlisted Bertrand Russell and H. G. Wells in her cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 12, 1969 | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...cares what banks fail in Yonkers Long as you've got a kiss that conquers? -George and Ira Gershwin's Who Cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Carefree Collapse | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...times, but Texas depositors have taken the closings with carefree jollity. Says Robbie Ferguson Jr., cashier and vice president of the failed Big Lake State Bank: "At first I was so embarrassed that I didn't come out of the house for two days. Then I got up the courage and came out, and everybody was laughing and joking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Carefree Collapse | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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