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...classic (and actual) case of summer employment rip-off involved a Harvard student this summer. One student pursued an ad in OCS-OCL's summer jobs file for a head-tennis-pro position, financed her own trip to Washington D.C. to try out for the job at a "placement" agency, was given the job, left the required $50 deposit, and waited happily for June to begin work. The placement agency had no one with any knowledge of tennis skills or playing experience; the plot was revealed when they hired four students on an adjacent court with sub-intramural tennis abilities...
...Admissions Office had the policy of keeping such recommendations on file.) At the FDO, freshman advisers, proctors, and senior advisers use the admission materials to become acquainted with students and to arrange rooming groups. Your freshman adviser receives a summary of your statistics--directory information, achievement and Harvard placement test results, high school activities, and probable area of major. Your original file, however, never leaves the FDO--proctors and advisers must read the files on the premises. "We try to respect the privacy rights of students," Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, says. In the course of the year...
...thought I played all right," said Reese after the bout. "He was fast and he hit hard, but he is only a freshman and he lacked experience in waiting on his shots and placement...
...theater and subjected it to a constructivist rigor of formal layout. The past life of the wood pieces was still apparent: the nicks and flaws, the signs of use and disuse, all preserved and yet held at an emotional distance by the pall of black. But her instinct for placement, for what shapes to repeat and where to repeat them, and how to break their sequence into daring asymmetries and unexpected detachments of rhythm, was carried out with an unfailing formal sense. This disciplined what might otherwise have been a too lush spread of metaphorical associations-with Russian altar screens...
Initially, some of the demonstrators struggled with the 15 officers and postal inspectors, who stood at the top of the steps, over the placement of the trees, some of which still had Christmas tinsel hanging from their branches...