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...positive side, Bennett pointed to a small increase (16 points out of 1,600) in SAT scores, ending a long, downward slide; a jump from 76% to 86% in the percentage of high school seniors passing American history; and new or strengthened homework policies among at least one-fourth of all high schools. But the report's downbeat observations quickly overshadowed those cheering facts. Items...
...assumption that a Harvard ID card would be accepted at a Harvard-sponsored Senior event. The one other marshal present at the time, Jane E. Mendez, relinquished all responsibility for the misunderstanding, saying, "This is not my responsibility." If not hers, then whose? Neither marshal, unfortunately, had done her homework...
...have to do your homework," says Tomassoni, who handles recruiting for Harvard. "We're competing against other Ivies and scholarships schools...
Harvard has done its homework during the 1980s. Unlike other Ivies, Harvard has the extra advantage of its proximity to Boston. Add a tradition of academic and athletic excellence to a city that houses three other Division I hockey teams and hosts the Beanpot--the most well-attended annual college tournament in the nation--and you get a school with serious hockey clout...
...Mallon is an academic by profession and it shows. Few pages are without allusions. Art's love for Keats has earned him the nickname "Urn Man," and Mallon peppers his novel with frequent allusions to the romantic poet. The book starts with a description of Artie's Greek homework, later quoted, and the text has the requisite invocations of Matthew Arnold, Shakespeare and Joyce. Moreover, Mallon throws in details about contemporary political events, such as Pattie Hearst's kidnapping...