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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half years' earnings. Harvard's reply is that almost anyone can attend if he is accepted (i.e., "has the ability). This is an important claim for it states that once applications are in, once socio-economic factors have done their work and it's Harvard's turn, the process is a meritocracy. The Admissions Office has basked up this statement. The only way to test it is to look at the applicant group as a whole, ad to compare those who came to those who didn...

Author: By Jeff Seder, | Title: 'Fair Harvard' -- Who's Here And Why? | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...their fees in full. This reason would disappear if it could be shown that Harvard does not need the funds from tuition, a topic to be taken up in a future CRIMSON feature page. The second reason is "inheritance and nurture." The present Dean of Admissions states "we turn down many 800's. He wanted interesting and varied people. (Which 800's usually got turned down? Those from Choate?) This implies preppies are more "interesting and varied people...

Author: By Jeff Seder, | Title: 'Fair Harvard' -- Who's Here And Why? | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

Given that the world resembles the world, there is an aura of calm surrounding the Lost People--never beginning a particular road they never risk a wrong turn or an end. A mindless (being either above or below mind, if not on a totally different scale) journey like sleeping with your eyes open in the clear and cold...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: A Trip Around With Kenneth Patchen's Mind | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...picture was of a very quietly incredibly-beautiful girl dressed in funny - looking turn - of - the - century clothes, the kind of innocent girl I've always wanted to meet at a be-in. I guessed that if she were alive and at Harvard now and still looked like that, she would be deeply involved in relationships with two boys, and she would have one of the most serious and agonized minds in history...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The Cuckoo Clock in Kurt Vonnegut's Hell | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...Deep South, and relations with huge agricultural complexes like the California grape companies and their employees. His book, Overcoming World Hunger, could indicate a general concern for problems like these. In the Post Office Winton Blount will probably lend added support to the recent business advisory committee recommendations to turn the Post Office into a public corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Bland Men | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

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