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...Ideal first date: Visit to field site to observe mating behavior of mountain bluebirds...
...Ideal first date: To go for a walk in the forest...
...ideal world, it would be possible to drink a pint of beer with your favorite professor over discussions about your thesis topic. It would be possible for Prefects to take the first-years not only to the North End, but also to Redline. It would be unnecessary to pretend that you are mutual strangers when you meet one of your tutors...
Taking recruited athletes in substantial numbers also corresponds with the pursuit of Harvard’s highest ideal of all: excellence. More than any other school in the country, Harvard seeks out excellence in every conceivable activity—it leans towards “well-lopsided” students, especially in the early action round. According to McGrath Lewis, every year, just 300 students are accepted for primarily academic reasons—which doesn’t mean they got a lot of A’s in high school, because everyone did; it means they uncovered the influence...
...highly specialized kids, with lower cutoff points on grades and SAT’s, until it became, in effect, a vocational school for every extracurricular activity under the sun, where students breezed through classes between rehearsals, practices or lab time—precisely the opposite of the liberal arts ideal it seeks to embody. It would, in short, abandon the broken leg test. It might also take a disproportionate number of community service-minded applicants on the grounds that they demonstrated uncommon personal qualities, contrary to administrators’ reminder to first-years that they are here primarily to learn...