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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least two causes for the large percentage of Yard-dwellers seem obvious. First there is the familiar chant, "Everybody lives in the Yard." Incoming Sophomores, especially those with Harvard fathers, often feel that the Yard is a part of College life not to be missed. Furthermore, the new Sophomore likes to seek friends at his own age level; in the Yard he is equal to all in years while being superior to most in scholastic attainment. In its circular, the A.P. Department proposes a compromise plan: let the new Sophomore live in the Yard for a term, and then...
...student who can amass enough learning to get Advanced Placement in three courses is often one with widespread interests. Not all A. P. students get advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...
Most of the fakes were submitted as originals only accidentally. As one member of the Fogg staff explained, the paintings were often gifts to their student owners. In the case of the Dufy, for example, the fraud seems innocently inept. Only a portion of the original painting is reproduced -- the portion chosen by the milk company. The painting's prominent position in the exhibition is owing at least in part, to the fact that its owner offered it late, as an after-thought...
...this, Mr. and Mrs. Brown and David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House will assign 'Cliffe concentrators to House tutors. Faculty associates of Winthrop will often eat lunch at the Annex dormitory, "in an informal atmosphere that is not possible at the weekly guest dinners that now take place," Brown said...
...fact is that excellence tends to breed excellence, and for this reason a long string of individual stars have come to Harvard over the years, giving Harvard an often spectacular top five as well as an astonishing number of National Intercollegiate Champions. Until Yale's fine victory this winter, Harvard was the only college ever to win the National Team Championship--ten times--and in the past few years the names Ufford, Heckscher and Sears emphasize Harvard's striking dominance...