Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students are a strange, strange breed. Basically, the admissions officers go through the applicant pool each year and choose the 2,000 students most likely to make a mark on the world. Some of these students may also possess well-developed social skills, but that's really beside the point. Most of your classmates will be determined to succeed at any cost--a noble precept in itself, but not one that makes for a warm and friendly social atmosphere...
Which brings me to lesson five: Other people can help you only to a point. Then...
...Nothing that either Harvard or Radcliffe could see should be a barrier at this point," he told The Crimson in April...
...sized, skinny and affable to the point of goofiness, Rudenstine is hardly the imposing figure one might expect from a giant in American higher education...
Rudenstine's defenders say his burdens as president are too daunting for him to meddle in College affairs, and they may have a point...