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...Counter should demand that this documentation be removed from the Harvard University Library and burned! To his outbursts about my intelligence and academic training I state that apart from University and field studies and continents, I have taken courses with Curt Sachs, Paul Wingert and received an M.A. from Haverford, a college which, I am told, has a very high standing in the Harvard Admission Office...
...does the hard sell end when acceptance letters go out. Tom Rice of Irvington High in Westchester County, N.Y., applied to several Ivy League colleges, as well as Wesleyan, Georgetown, Haverford and the State University of New York at Binghamton. Accepted across the board, he was "practically blitzed with brochures," he says. Yale invited Tom and other successful applicants, along with their parents, to a reception at the local country club, and even supplied music by a popular Yale chorus. He is headed for New Haven next September...
Undergraduates who hesitate to stop out for fear of seeming too nonconformist might contemplate the example of their professors, who generally take a sabbatical every seven years; Bennington College, which has for four decades required its students to leave campus each winter and work for a term; or former Haverford President John R. Coleman, who once left his office and hired himself out for two months as a dishwasher, garbage collector, and in other unscholarly trades. Even more assuring is the case of Stanford Grad Margaret Doerr. She enrolled in the class of 1931 and finally graduated last August...
Robert J. Ginn Jr., associate director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, has been nominated to succeed Francis Fisher '47, who left his post as director of the OCS-OCL last spring to become Luce Professor of Ethics and the Professions at Haverford College...
...school faculty, not any politician, university official or alumnus, makes all law admission decisions. This applicant was accepted because he worked his way through Haverford College, had a B average, a 652 LSAT score and an excellent work record since graduation. In fact, every one of our decisions is objective and reviewable by the public. Each is based on individual merit and is neither helped nor hurt by one's "political clout," race, religion, national origin, name, age, sex or station in life...