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...Socially it becomes an important part of every member’s life,” says Vargas, who is dating former Callback member Benjamin T. Jackson ’03, not an uncommon phenomenon in a capella groups...
...always been like this. The legal drinking age was lowered from 20 to 18 in Dec. 1999, and prior to that it was illegal for many students to drink. Because they were unable to enter bars or nightclubs, it was not uncommon to find groups of young people drinking at night on inner-city streets or in public places. Many resorted to making fake IDs and persuading friends and older siblings to purchase alcohol...
...high school, because everyone did; it means they uncovered the influence of a long-forgotten advisor to Queen Elizabeth I while researching a term paper. The remaining 1,700 or so accepted students certainly have top grades and SAT scores, but they also tend to demonstrate some uncommon excellence in one area or another. Just think of how many of your friends can be identified by a single phrase: a piano player; a Crimson writer; a field hockey stud. “Excellence, whatever form it is, is a surrogate for personal qualities,” says Fitzsimmons. And indeed...
...through classes between rehearsals, practices or lab time—precisely the opposite of the liberal arts ideal it seeks to embody. It would, in short, abandon the broken leg test. It might also take a disproportionate number of community service-minded applicants on the grounds that they demonstrated uncommon personal qualities, contrary to administrators’ reminder to first-years that they are here primarily to learn and to participate in Harvard life...
...Glover while researching his senior thesis, said that Glover had forged an exceedingly uncommon closeness with Chinese officials, social workers, parents and children...