Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does each class appear statistically like the one ahead of it, if "quotas" are not used? There seem to be two answers. First, each man on the admissions committee feels in his own mind that a "good mix" is a necessary thing for Harvard College. If the admissions committee has just okayed nine consecutive students from a small town in Oregon, it will become wary of admitting more. Perhaps, as Whitla suggests, the advocate himself will not be able to find it in him to argue a tenth case enthusiastically. More important, there is something of a quota built into...
...knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. It is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might mean something to a grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay which means nothing at all to him and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads...
...Council usually ends up doing little more than cleaning the bulletin boards, sponsoring several well-attended mixers, and making tentative studies into various aspects of man, the world, and the Harvard student. It serves in more useful roles, perhaps, as a sounding board for freshman discontent, an outlet where politically-minded freshmen can get student politics out of their system, and as a dispenser of class monies...
Once elected, the ten-man committee plans a relatively elaborate three day blast in April comparable to the upperclass Spring Week-end. Although the committee has found it increasingly hard to entice freshmen into attending this extravaganza, in 1967 the event, which included "The Temptations." was executed without financial strain. But the last two years. Jubilee has flopped...
...dropped, along with the test tubes she was carrying. Martin summoned up the dopeyest basset hound-Pat Paulsen deadpan he could imagine until she finally realized he was kidding (Thank God! Man, what a sober little babe!) and began to laugh. So did Martin and, to his discomfort, the entire biology...