Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first reads, "Sons and daughters of intellectuals are getting into P.U. (Peking University) these days, and people from worker-peasant backgrounds can't get in." This is false. There is a tendency to have a high proportion of intellectuals' sons and daughters, just as there is at Harvard, but that does not at all eliminate the possibility that others from different backgrounds could gain attendance...
...surface, most swimmers can be distinguished from other athletes because of their chlorine-bleached blond hair. But in the depths of the pool, a swimmer separates himself from his competitors mostly by what goes on inside, rather than on, his head--or so says Harvard sophomore Jack Gauthier...
...next day Gauthier shattered his personal record in the 100-yd. butterfly, posting a 50.48 for second place. This time places him third on Harvard's all-time fastest list. He also notched a personal best in the 100-yd. freestyle at 46.1 for fifth place in the East and fourth in Crimson history...
While the NCAAs may have left a bad taste in the mouths of some of the swimmers, the American history major's performance at the end of the season at the Easterns showed his enormous talent, despite a slow start in his maiden year at Harvard...
...knew the guys on the Harvard team from way back," the graduate of BC High School said. "Now the old cronies come back, and I ask them how they're doing and they think of the little twerp sitting in the stands...