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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PEOPLE (ABC, 8:15-9 p.m.). Half a dozen young Americans get a crack at making a better world when they survive a plane crash on a deserted island in the Pacific. Premiere...
Members account for about 82 per cent of the Coop's sales. Thus 82 per cent of the Coop's profit goes back to the membership at the end of the year. The other 18 per cent gets cut in half by taxes, and the remainder is all the Coop has left for reinvestment and growth. Although the Coop appears to have a lot of money, it really doesn't. There are not large sums hidden away in the vaults of the Harvard Trust. In fact, whenever the Coop has needed to expand in recent years...
...appropriate tone of annoyance to my outraged relatives.) What was a nice boy from Boston doing with a roommate like that? The fault, I'll admit, was my own. When it came time for me to fill out the administration's virtually irrelevant roommate request form, I was half through a second tortured reading of The Sound and the Fury. No, I told my parents, I don't care what race he belongs to, or what religion he practices, or whether or not he plays a musical instrument. In fact, I think I'd even like a Southerner! Harvard responded...
Anyway, the point that the whole, by-now-soggy, shower episode was leading to before it was interrupted: as an incoming freshman, you can expect to be impressed with Harvard for about two and a half weeks. Long before that time, you will have stopped comparing college boards (the other guy's are always embarrassingly higher), and by the end of your first month, you will begin to wonder how so many stupid people ever managed to get into the place. By that time, you're playing one of the freshman's more amusing games, one called...
Harvard is an omelette. Your best bet is to suspend judgment and let destiny wait awhile. Define after it's all over. There will be time enough to tell them about Harvard in the club cars, country clubs, cocktail parties, and barbecues of the next half century...