Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we could not have equal enrollment because of our duty to the nation to provide leaders. Last Fall, Dean Watson told me that I was so enthusiastic about merger because I didn't realize how much it was going to decrease my benefits as a Harvard student. Chase Peterson, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, told a Faculty meeting that continuation of co-ed housing would be dependent on renovation of Radcliffe dorms and provision of bus service from Radcliffe to the Yard. Men could not be expected to tolerate conditions women have lived under since Radcliffe's inception...
...Peterson checked his folders and found the only Philadelphia school where one student had been admitted and three rejected. Of the supposed radicals, one was sergeant-at-arms of his teenage Republican Club, another was described by his interviewer as "the Boy Scout type," and the third had no political information in his folder...
...Peterson admitted that alumni interviewers and schools can report unfavorably on radical candidates, but he pointed out that "we don't worship any part of the report." In addition, the Admissions Committee is used to interpreting school reports at more than face value, he said...
...example of a radical who was not discriminated against, Peterson cited one underground newspaper editor who used one of his articles from the paper as his application essay. Sprinkled with four-letter words, it was, according to Peterson, radical in outlook. The alumni interviewer said the candidate was aggressive in his manner...
...radicalism aside, the student was admitted because his writing style was considered outstanding. "He sounded like another Norman Mailer," Peterson explained...