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Every Thursday afternoon I give Crimson Key tours of Harvard Yard to incoming or prospective freshmen. This past week was pre-freshmen week, so all those on the tour knew they were "in," and only had to make that pseudo-decision between Harvard, Yale and Princeton...
Upon ending the tour, I felt that I might have been a little too dogmatic in my talk of the anti-apartheid struggle. I saw apprehension in the faces of some of these pre-freshmen and their parents. I concluded my tour by telling them the following: I hope that what I told you of the student struggle has not completely distorted your ideas about whether Harvard is the right place for you. Most students with whom I have contact are very happy that they are at Harvard. I am too. But there are a number of aspects of Harvard...
...long ago, Dartmouth accepted for admission next autumn twenty pre-Freshmen, giving them to understand that their last year at school was to be spent in a pursuit of education unhampered by the necessity of cramming for June College Board Examinations. Here was a reasonable provision for the ability of the student of outstanding scholastic promise, the man of such talents that it was detrimental to his education to keep him on the level of his ordinary classmates. It was a recognition of the fact that a year may be more profitably spent than on cramming to make sure...
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...believed that boys of outstanding scholastic promise will greatly benefit by being assured of admission to college a full year in advance." So saying, Dartmouth last week accepted for admission next autumn 20 pre-freshmen, giving them to understand that in their last school year they were free to follow their own scholastic interests instead of cramming for dread College Board examinations. Thus, also, was Dartmouth somewhat assured that at least 20 promising Dartmouth men would not change their minds and go off with classmates to some other college...