Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Scholarships, said yesterday that this year's "yield" from admissions offers would be "about the same--within a percentage point" of last year's figure. Last year, about 85 per cent of those accepted at Harvard entered the freshman class...
More than 90 per cent of the 109 blacks admitted are coming to Harvard, Peterson said. Last year, 55 blacks were admitted and nearly 100 per cent came here. Peterson attributed the percentage decline to increased recruiting of blacks by other colleges...
Teachers found it difficult to innovate with curriculum ideas that didn't excite the interests of all the children in the class. Because of the limitations of one teacher per class, no children were allowed to deviate from what the class did if he did not enjoy an activity. Often, these discontented Kids would not accept their fate calmly, however, and proceeded to disrupt the entire class and spoil the hour. The same limitation of one teacher per class also affected individual children, who needed additional attention because they lacked self-confidence. Curriculum, even if it did excite the expanded...
Styron says he can understand why his black critics had "this emotional response, and I can accommodate myself to it." But he cannot let it bother him any more. "Some of the points are well taken," he says of Ten Black Writers, "but ninety per cent of it is shallow. I can excuse them for their passion, but not for the preposterous things they said...
Harvard jumped into an early lead with a fast 43 strokes per minute at the start of the race. At the 500-meter mark the Crimson led by the three-quarters of a length; by the half-way mark Harvard had stretched its lead to a length. Going into the last 500 meters, Princeton started to falter while Yale made a strong but vain attempt to catch Harvard in the sprint...