Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also, since most well-prepared applicants come from either prep schools or bette than average suburban high schools, the presently broad socio-economic base of the College would contract. "Harvard would be cutting itself off," said Bender, "from a group we've worked hard...
Ralph Perry, a pleasant surprise in the squad's first two races, has conquered a bad cold and will be in condition to place high this afternoon. Bob Knapp, Greg Baldwin, and Wes Hildreth should provide added depth...
...half of the issue (it starts from both back and front and reads into the middle like a high school humor magazine) is devoted to the poetry of Mark J. Mirsky, David Landan, and Thomas Weisbuch, all Harvard undergraduates. Mirsky's poems are mostly short, tight sketches, upon banal subjects, revealing a certain sensitivity, but constantly becoming fouled in their own language. There are technical errors in many of these poems, inaccuracies of expression, inconsistencies in metaphor (even louts, when angry, do not grin, etc.) and a rough, amateurish quality in word choice. There is, however, a certain crude gentleness...
...taking the elevator down to breakfast (fortunately, Vag lived in Quincy), he discovered he had communication problems. When he tried to ask the cleaning woman who was riding with him what she would do if she was changed into a tape recorder, all that came out was a high pitched garble suggesting a recording being played backwards on the wrong speed. The cleaning woman, who possessed great presence of mind, reached over and patted Vag consolingly, hunted around among his several tapes and--with a smile of satisfaction--placed one on the machine...
...academically--which may have some demonstrable basis--but in a sort of intangible mystique which can be felt by any Freshman during his first week here. This attitude has both its good and bad sides. At its best, it produces a drive for, and appreciation of, excellence; it maintains high standards and good taste. At its worst, however, it gives rise to cavalier disdain and snobbery, to what has been termed "upper-directed" behavior, to pride, and to false pride. Humility remains a rare quality at Harvard...