Word: reardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice reached other liberal arts colleges. Bowdoin in Maine and Hampshire in Massachusetts first invited examples of creative work three years ago. Yale joined them this year and others are considering it. Not everyone approves. Harvard tried it and then gave up because, according to Admissions Director John P. Reardon, it attracted too many "bizarre" submissions-and "wasn't all that helpful anyway...
Getting Even. Some of Reardon's counterparts disagree strongly. The entrance staff at Yale inspected almost 400 samples of applicants' work, compared with perhaps a dozen volunteered in earlier years, to learn more than is revealed by S.A.T. scores. Gimmicks alone will not get a student into college, of course. Yale turned down-on academic grounds-applicants who had sent in an embroidered pillowcase, an apple cake and a sexy black negligee handmade of appliqued silk. At Bowdoin, President Roger Howell took a bite of a cookie made by one aspirant and grunted, "She'd better...
...John P. Reardon '60, director of Harvard admissions, said Sunday, "we pay absolutely no attention to anything of that sort (religion). We just don't have any quotas...
...statement to the Crimson Thursday. Harvard Student Agencies omitted the name of one member of the committee which is preparing a public report of the agency's operations. John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of Admissions, is the fifth member of the committee...
...Gloria Ms. of the Year. MICHAEL REARDON Billings, Mont...