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Word: numbered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the lid of censorship, there are those lucky students whose freshman advisors have let the magic number slip out in the course of cocktail conversation, and those doubly lucky ones, who, when told their number, found it was a good one. A smiling senior in the second category confided, "I've been group five for three years running, but I'm always able to say. "I'm smart; the College had me pegged for group...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Unfortunately, only a few of us have had such loose-lipped advisors. But college officials have revealed enough about PRL to enable the student to make an educated guess at his own number...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...more meaningful for admissions purposes and Glimp too has a weakness for playing with the number. "Artists have PRL's lower than the Harvard average, while musicians are way above the mean. I think that's sort of an interesting fact." he said...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard student what kind of grades he's been getting, he'll probably answer in terms of a Rank List Group. The Groups are simply a bookkeeping method, but they are important at certain times during your career. Each House, for instance, may accept applications from only a certain number of men in each Group. Some fields of concentration are effectively restricted to those in Groups One and Two The Dean's List contains everyone above Group Three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rank Lists | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Roose 70, was interested in improving the Coop's relationship with the larger community of Cambridge and Boston. No one had ever really confronted the Coop like this before. Moreover, the fact that a thousand members turned out for the annual meeting proved to management that a significant number of members shared the belief that the Coop should look for new means of community participation...

Author: By Alan S. Geismer jr., | Title: The 'Coop Coup' A Year Later | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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