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Freshmen living in the Quad often feel somewhat isolated from the rest of their class. They're a minority, and sometines they feel like it. Radcliffe is a 15 to 20 minute walk from the Yard, which is right next to most of the classroom buildings. You can usually wake up in the Yard on the hour, and make it to class by five past--a good thing if you like to sleep late. But the walk to the Quad can be really pleasant, especially in the fall and spring, and many devout 'Cliffe dwellers say they like the feeling...
...have had apply from this area in a long time" but also noted that he is academically "below the average Harvard standards." The rest of the report is an argument stressing Peter's leadership and athletic qualities ("Peter Mack is a leader. You can tell that when you walk into the locker room") and balancing this against his academic side ("Peter Mack is not a genius but..."). Harvard is Mack's only alternative to life as "a hired gun" for a football squad elsewhere and the interviewer concludes that "Harvard needs young men like Peter Mack and Peter Mack needs...
...this had to happen. It may be a real rite de passage, but usually it just sends freshmen back to their rooms to write letters to girl and boy friends back home. The mixer is much like renting a room for your senior prom and finding out when you walk in that 12 other schools have also booked the hall that night. Go, if only to give you something to talk about for the next ten weeks...
...people spoke of the Silent Generation. That age turned sour around the end of 1963, with the assassination of John Kennedy and the deepening involvement in Viet Nam. After that, it became harder to cheer a society divided by riots, split by generations, alarmed by drugs and afraid to walk city streets at night...
There was something about these atrocities, confesses Arlen, "that bothered me where I had not been bothered before; something more complicated than moral nausea, more troubling than a voyeuristic shudder." To locate that "something," he flew to Soviet Armenia to walk the hallowed ground and converse with remnants of a country that was no longer a nation. The place was a reconciliation of opposites. Mount Ararat, where Noah had brought his ark to rest, hid the radar stations of NATO. The literate Armenians liked "Jerome Salinger" and refused to talk of Solzhenitsyn. They were grateful for a land free...