Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another way. "I could figure out what activities would make me both admired and popular in high school, and I had the ability to succeed in those activities, but it's completely different at Harvard. There are too many activities with too many really talented people to give a status label to anything. You learn to do what you really want to do, and you forget pretty much about everybody else...
THIS artificial situation reflects on university discipline. In effect, the university has no punishments for specific offenses. Severance is not a punishment, it is a decision that here and now a student is not a valuable member of this community; probation is a statement that a student's status is unclear. Neither presupposes guilt, neither is truly a punishment. They are merely statements of the Faculty's dissatisfaction with a student: presumably a student could...
...should the students want to know? Well, PRL is the closest thing Harvard has to a how-smart-are-you index, and because of that is one of the College's greatest status symbols. Does ranking first in your class at Exeter make you smarter than a science type who gets a bunch of 800 board scores? It's hard to say. PRL is Harvard's answer to such questions; it is a tidy composite of your high school academic achievements and what the College knows of your aptitude...
...JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class" is a study of the middle-class Negro's conflict between his new status and his sympathy with the black movement. Repeat...
...view of many adults, youth has less to protest about this year than last. Some U.S. troops have been withdrawn from Viet Nam, and presumably more will follow. ROTC is being reduced in status at some schools. Students in many places are gaining a stronger voice in university affairs. Yet to many young people, the pace of change is too slow. The war, the draft, racial tension and poverty still linger. Each class of incoming freshmen in recent years has been more militant than the last; this year's is expected to be no different...