Word: roundedã
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...while Harvard makes numerous pretenses to seek out those mystical “well-rounded?? applicants from thousands of applicants every year, it makes only a bad faith attempt at keeping its students well-rounded. There is a strong case to be made for sticking with Harvard’s long history of liberal education. After all, grad school has historically been where true specialization takes place, and Harvard has never taken pride, as MIT has, in producing students who are essentially academic drones with blinders attached, divorced from all fields of study but their...
...choral and a capella groups (interest in participation has expanded beyond the dozen already on campus). The ever more competitive admissions process has helped fuel this expanding interest in the arts; it is rare to find a Harvard first-year with no artistic background or training. An increasingly well-rounded??and often determined—student body has led to a flurry of new arts activity. The Office for the Arts (OFA) now estimates that approximately 3,000 undergraduates—about half the College’s students—are involved in the arts...