Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedman '57, who addressed faculty for the first time since taking over as president last July. In that speech, Freedman asserted that the current imbalance in the ratio between men and women "is not healthy to either the intellectual or social life of the students," according to Alfred T. Quirk, Dartmouth's dean of admissions...
...recent years the percentage of female applicants and matriculants at Dartmouth has hovered around 39 percent, Quirk said. "We don't want to get into a down cycle here where women are destined to be in the minority forever." he said...
...Quirk cited several possible steps to attract more women. The elimination of all single sex dorms next year at the college, he said, will create a more attractive atmosphere for potential women students, he said...
...regulatory affairs. After a year, he went to work at the regulatory affairs executive office at the OMB, then returned to Justice to head the Antitrust Division. Impressed by his brainy efficiency, Meese recommended him to the President for the federal judiciary in 1986. There is only one quirk in the Ginsburg dossier: during his freshman year at Cornell, he dropped out and became a partner in a computer dating service, Operation Match, in Cambridge, Mass. He sold his share in the business after a couple of years and returned to school several thousand dollars richer...
...Harvard police were next on the scene, and about 10 minutes after the sighting MDC Lt. Thomas Quirk saw the boy floating face down 30 feet from shore and swam out to grab him. Other officers threw life preservers out to the pair to pull them...