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...registrar also administers final examinations. "Students may not recognize this as a service, but I believe faculty members do," Herschbach says...
Georgene Herschbach, former director of Special Programs, became the new registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--perhaps Harvard's most overworked and undernoticed administrator...
Both Associate Registrar Thurston A. Smith and Director of Admissions Marilyn M. Lewis '70 said no Soviet citizen had been accepted to the College in recent memory, and Smith added that it was possible that no Soviet nationals had ever been enrolled at Harvard...
According the admissions report in the 1921 Official Registrar, which covered the years from 1917 to 1920, 60 percent of Harvard students were form private schools; that compares to 34 percent now. Eighty-eight percent of students were from New England and Atlantic states, compared to 53 percent today. Three percent hailed from Western states, compared to 15 percent today. Only a handful of students came from foreign countries--between .1 and .4 percent--and today foreign students comprise 6 percent of the student body...
After a frustrating hour-and-a-half of trying to guess what symbols the proctor was attempting to describe to me, I finally asked him to call the registrar's office. Two members of the office's staff came. One of them asked, with some hostility, what more I could have expected their office to do for me. The professor of the course was summoned and arrived half an hour later. He identified two or three symbols on the exam for the proctor and then left. Unfortunately the exam contained many more elementary notations which he presumably expected the proctor...