Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole, Crimson editorials mouse neither my mental applause nor hissing. However, being a "Cliffis" and hence four times as smart as James Muller, I was quick to spot the absurdity (oh, those sharp-tongued "Cliffies") of his editorial "Doubts About Equal Admissions" (November...
...Muller, you seem confused. You equate equal admissions with lower educational standards ("educationally waning"), yet you tell us that "Cliffies" are four times as smart as Harvard boys. Oh, I see--if we have equal admissions, we are all equally smart. Aren't those academic standards high enough for you? Do you really want to have to scramble socially and academically to measure up to "Cliffies"? You complain and then grieve of the possible remedy of your complaints...
...causing stiff competition for their attention among the 1200 men. The unlucky three-quarters who were left out found their way to Wellesley, where, as love story reported to matter-of-factly, the women are more compiler. . .Most simply put, a Cllffie who had to be four times as smart as her Harvard counter part to e admitted was difficult to approach. Furthermore, Radcliffe women were reputed to have sharp tongues. But with the coming of women's liberation, they were willing to give up this traditional advantage since they could do without men. Instead, they pressed for the very...
...class of '72 fastened equal signs to their mortarboards. The new president of Radcliffe demanded equal admissions. Typically the powers that be capitulated and announced that a move toward equalization would begin immediately. Accordingly a larger, blunter-tongued group of women only two and a half times as smart as their Harvard counterparts settled down in Cambridge this Fall, some even in the previously all-male Yard. Only a few staid old grads lamented the sight of women-eating breakfast by themselves at, the Union. By far the louder complaint was that progress was too slow. But even those...
...inferior status: "What is your explanation for this serious state of affairs in view of the fact that males are virtually controlled and dominated by women from birth to puberty and often beyond that? Why haven't you done a better job, if you are as smart as you say you are?" To Clark MacGregor, expounding on the embarrassment a major contributor to the Nixon campaign would suffer if his role were disclosed: "What is he ashamed...