Word: postings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem facing the House system is quite different. While student groups are growing in number but lacking in resources, Houses are feeling the effects of decreased student involvement. Post-randomization, students no longer have the social ties within their Houses that existed before. The administration's decision to reduce blocking group size was an admission that something needs to be done to increase community within the Houses. But will smaller blocking groups alone increase House community...
...Swab #2 was the reason why almost all of us are here today--John Harvard's lucky foot. Every pre-frosh, tourist and passerby unaware of J.H.'s double-duty as a piss-post has rubbed this blessed appendage...
...first-years are clearly going to be fashionably late, so we head to our next scheduled stop, post-Pudding show reception...
...post-"crazy for you" black-tie opening reception on stage OF the pudding...
...wrong, but we're never careless," Lewis maintains. "All I know is we admit people and they show up and live in dorms and are your roommates. Most people pay tuition. It works out okay," she jokes. However, sometimes Harvard will rescind an offer if something drastic happens post-decision. The most famous case was Gina Grant, whose admission offer was revoked in 1995 after the office learned of her 1991 manslaughter conviction for killing her abusive mother. Most instances are less lurid--plummeting grades or "a deeper problem we were unaware of." But Lewis says this happens only rarely...