Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This self-consciousness is usually of an assured, quiet, sort. They define the Radcliffe years as an arrow pointing toward them, with everything else fading into a grayish blur. What do they like best here? The privacy, the independence, the challenge, or some particular experience of the past, they answer softly...
...Like the chocolates, this flavor wanted to liberalize the sign-out rules but while the chocolate reason was an indignant "We are responsible enough," the lime reason was "They have no business interfering with our lives...
...reason for Harvard's shrouding of the numbers in secrecy has been the desire to prevent the higher rated students from blabbering. "My PRL is better than your PRL." and the like. "It would be unhealthy to brand people." one senior tutor explained...
...information from actual standings is translated by computers into curves representing the relative advantage for performance at Harvard of the whole range of verbal aptitude and achievement scores. Several curves of like derivation are drawn for rank in class to take care of the wide variance in the size of high school classes...
...great aid" to the admissions process, "We must remember that it's only one of many things we're looking for. There are a lot of guys more interesting and more desirable than the potential summa. But if you get somebody with a 1.6 who looks like he'll hang together for four years, you've got to take...