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...applications the admissions officials tends very early to group together those people who look like sure admits. One person's application about three or four years ago definitely footed that bill. A quick glance at his file revealed some amazing feats. But, under closer observance the officials began to smell a rat. The guy claimed to have danced with Nureyev, run a 9.3 hundred and played in the New York Philharmonic. He said he had gotten all 800s on every test. It's funny the straw that broke the camel's back was his claim that...
...hanging around his room trying to convert his roommates to The Cause. Especially when there wasn't much of a cause left for Paco except Paco. So he stopped arguing with the rich kid so much, in fact he got pretty close to him--close enough to smell the money, close enough to see what it's like to be able to go to school and not have to worry about anything except how well the stocks Dad gave you for Christmas are doing. Close enough to meet the people he knew he was going to have to know later...
...readership of The Crimson why we really wrote the letter. He implied that we were merely the pawns of our high-powered, overzealous coaches who were fearful of Peck's affect on the recruiting of high school athletes. This is very convenient indeed for those who smell conspiracies behind any positive action contrary to The Crimson's liberal viewpoint, but unfortunately it is simply untrue. The group of forty athletes who signed the letter represent all intercollegiate athletes at Harvard, a larger group that strives for excellence and self-expression in a setting of competitiveness that intercollegiate athletics provides...
...over the mountains into the tiny jungle village. That impresses the natives. So does the look of him. He is 6 ft. 4 in. and weighs 230 Ibs. To the black men, his florid face has many colors, and his nose is big enough, by his own boast, to "smell the whole world with." Henderson is also a psychological mess. His quest is for knowledge of Grun tu molani (the way to live). What he carries with him is the doom of self-doubt. "Well, Your Highness, you've got a good thing here," he says to Itelo, prince...
Although the Center grew out of two older observatories, few there spend much time looking through telescopes. Most work at desks in their own offices, surrounded by references, handbooks, or computer printouts. At first inspection, the center seems like the headquarters of some old-boy-dominated corporation. The smell of pipe smoke wafts down many halls. Most of the women in the building work as secretaries or receptionists for male scientist-administrators. They keep the files in order and the coffee warm while the scientist-administrators talk on the phone and move purposefully between offices, checking on the progress...