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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another part of the Union Committee's active program is a photographic competition, which will run shortly after the Spring vacation and continue for two weeks. Details will be announced soon, but it is certain that a number of handsome prizes will go to the winners...
Houses vary widely in the number of first-choice applications they receive. Although exact figures are not available, last year Eliot, Lowell, and Winthrop were all very heavily over-applied; Leverett had a smaller surplus of applicants; Adams, Dunster, and Kirkland were considerably under-applied...
Last spring 347 Yardings were turned down at the first admission. This year the number will probably be greater, since the Housemasters have decided to favor upperclassmen more than they have in the past. Like finding a job in a "recession," getting into a House forces a Freshman to sell himself to the powers that be if he doesn't want to be left out in the cold of Mt. Auburn...
...addition to these factors, each House judges its applicants on their extra-curricular activities, including athletics; their personality; reports from Freshman advisers, where available; and the number of acquaintances in the House applied for. The last is exceedingly important, and a large number of letters of recommendation from men already in the House pays off when admission lists are made...
...urgent request by Harris for one additional officer to handle the large number of men in his department next year has not been acted upon by college and military authorities...