Word: optimum
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...Perhaps, in other words, we will actually be the best college and make optimum use of our resources if we reasonably relaxed about it, if we show a little more humility and humanity catholicity in our search for talent, if we recognize the fundamental human social importance of other factors than A-getting ability and high academic ambitions, and don't use the faculty exclusively to reproduce themselves. By means let's have a lot of brilliant students, the first class academic minds which have always been one of the marks of Harvard. . . But let's have some other students...
...limit of fifteen for each of the next five years seems an unrealistic and inflexible policy. No one, not even the architects of the program, knows exactly what course the new discipline will take and what the optimum number of concentrators will prove to be. Social Studies should remain a small field, but a little flexibility would be desirable—and despite the Faculty vote, there is some indication that the fifteen-man limit will be neither inviolable nor of long duration...