Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of rooming, over 98 per cent of the freshman class remain with their original roommates for the entire year, and a large majority continue living together during the sophomore year. Of course some rooming situations will not work out; under the tension of adjusting to college life many minor problems and personality differences can become major anxieties. If the problem seems serious enough, the student usually goes to his proctor or advisor, discusses the problem, and switches his room after registering the change with the Dean's Office...
...inevitable that most freshmen will worry about academic competition, but they soon learn the truth. "It's almost impossible to flunk out of Harvard." many freshman proctors declare each year. One half of one per cent succeeds in doing the impossible and leaves, though most return and graduate. "The fierce competition of high school doesn't exist here," said a freshman advisor in a private conversation recently. One freshman put it another way. "I could figure out what activities would make me both admired and popular in high school, and I had the ability to succeed in those activities...
...early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having stuck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes-in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step. I began to absorb the issues of the strike-ROTC. Afro-American Studies, expansion-and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the positions staked out by the first mass meeting...
...through his term as chairman of the History Department, rose to defend the sanctity of Faculty control over such matters as curriculum and appointment policy. This was the same H. Stuart Hughes who in 1962 ran for the Senate on a platform sufficiently unpopular to garner about 6 per cent of the vote, and who was still, when I came to Harvard, the closest thing with tenure to an active radical. But Professor Hughes and, for that matter. Betsy were only back-waters in the great stream of people supposedly politicized or radicalized by about five minutes of not unusually...
...class ranking are the variables in these three formulae. To find the PRL, the derivatives from the three are weighted in one of two proportions, depending on whether the applicant comes from a public or private school. In the public school formula, the class ranking derivative is 47 per cent of the PRL, verbal aptitude 23 per cent, and the average of achievement scores 30 per cent. For private school graduates it is 48 per cent, 20 per cent, and 32 per cent...