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...Clearly rooting for the underdog, Seven Up! found its early breakout star (tough Tony) and two of its sentimental favorites (wistful Simon and little-lost-boy Paul) among its lowest-class subjects. The posh lads had their scholastic futures mapped out: their parents had prepped them for Marlborough and Cambridge. But Simon, when asked whether he hoped to go to university, said no: "I'll just walk around, and see what I can find." And poor, dear Paul looked stumped. "What does university mean...
...longing to be accepted into the prestigious national honor society. “My very first, and worst, grade at Harvard was a C-minus in a rhetoric course freshman year,” said Meyer, a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. “It was the lowest grade I’d ever gotten in my whole life, but it really motivated me.” Meyer was among the 48 seniors notified of their election into the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, last week. Nine of the honored students were...
Furthermore, former Princeton President William G. Bowen and interim University President Derek C. Bok show in their book “The Shape of the River” that only one percent of white students at the most selective institutions come from the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds, while over 90 percent of students at these selective institutions come from households above the median American income ($60,000 per year). This lack in socioeconomic diversity is also linked to racial diversity, skewing not only students’ perceptions of what is normal or average in this country, but also what racial categories...
...even saying Shanahan necessarily buckled under the pressure of the media, the multitude of critics, and the money when he placed Cutler at the helm of Denver’s offense. Plummer’s inconsistency—and the fact that he’s the sixth-lowest rated passer in all of football—scream for some kind of change to jump-start the offense of a team that’s lost three of its last five.But a change like yanking your quarterback, a guy who led his team to the brink of the Super Bowl...
...nearly 14,000 adolescents by the Harvard School of Public Health. Nearly three-fourths of adolescents who broke their vow denied ever pledging to remain abstinent. But progress is still being made. Last week the CDC reported that the teenage birthrate in the U.S. has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded...