Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night person; I live during the nights, and sleep during the days...
This sort of favorable response to the transfer student is characteristic of the University Administration. The person who is admitted as a transfer student to Harvard from another college is very carefully screened and academically ranks above the University average. Twenty-three men were admitted as transfers this fall, 33 last year, and only...
...Committee on Admissions has not always been limited to taking a mere handful of transfers. Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, himself a transfer into Harvard, notes that "not too long ago, the one-year senior, the person who transfered to get a Harvard degree, was quite common." In the late 1940's the College took about 100 transfer students a year...
...present time, however, the Committee on Admissions admits annually only about 25 transfers from nearly 200 applicants. The stated policy sent to each person requesting transfer information reads thus: "Each year Harvard admits a limited number of transfer students from other colleges who are honor students in their own colleges and who have a substantial academic reason for wanting to attend Harvard. The competition is rigorous and only those men who are particularly well-qualified are selected...
...People from the fashionable prep schools winced when I said I came from Newburyport High School," he chuckled. "It took me a long time to convince them I was a moderately nice person...