Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey Doermann, a member of the admissions committee and former admissions director, explains that the docket system avoids the possibility of admitting so many, say, from the West Coast-which the committee considers first-that there will be no room left in the class when the committee gets further east, in which case the members might get progressively stricter. This could, of course also be avoided by not classifying the students geographically at all. But that, officials say, would be administratively inconvenient. The advocate system depends on having applicants grouped by area so the advocates can visit their schools...
...case of rooming, over 98 per cent of the freshman class remain with their original roommates for the entire year, and a large majority continue living together during the sophomore year. Of course some rooming situations will not work out; under the tension of adjusting to college life many minor problems and personality differences can become major anxieties. If the problem seems serious enough, the student usually goes to his proctor or advisor, discusses the problem, and switches his room after registering the change with the Dean's Office...
...left up to the individual as long as the student adheres to a few very general rules. Parties must be kept at a reasonable level so that Cambridge police don't need to be called, and practical regulations (rules governing the hours girls are allowed into Harvard rooms) must be upheld. The Administration, possessed with a Harvardian sense of history, demands that you register your marriage and the resulting change in room at the Dean's Office so that "we will know where to hang the plaque in case there is any future need...
Recognition of a sort did indeed follow. In 1958, Anderson was caught in a hotel room with a federal investigator eavesdropping on Bernard Goldfine, the generous industrialist whose relationship with Sherman Adams became a major Eisenhower Administration scandal...
...people. Animals seem to find it endearing too. Like the bear who cheerfully followed Durrell home one afternoon. Gerry's long-suffering mother was sure that he could explain the attachment. "Explain?" his brother Larry exploded. "Explain? How do you explain a bloody great bear in the drawing-room?" If you happen to be Durrell, you can explain-enchantingly...