Word: yielding
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Alienation has been the intellectual's occupational disease throughout history, the assumption being that he must be a critic of society and established values. Says M.I.T. Linguist Noam Chomsky: "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." Unfortunately, human affairs often yield a multiplicity of truths, a fact that some intellectuals find hard to tolerate. In her book, Vietnam, Mary McCarthy made a strong case for U.S. withdrawal, but she rejected any obligation to suggest how it might be achieved. The fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Scholarships, said yesterday that this year's "yield" from admissions offers would be "about the same--within a percentage point" of last year's figure. Last year, about 85 per cent of those accepted at Harvard entered the freshman class...
...lack of a decline came as a surprise to the admissions office, Peterson said. "We anticipated that two things would drive it [the yield] down," he commented, citing the national publicity surrounding...
...past years, between 85 and 90 per cent of the girls accepted here have come, while this year, the figure will probably be somewhere between 75 and 80 per cent. The decline represents about 30 girls. The Harvard yield (the number of students who accept) will probably be no more than one per cent away from the normal 85 per cent...
Smith said that he felt the University Hall sit-in and subsequent events might also have had a small negative effect on the Radcliffe yield. Robert E. Kaufmann '62, director of Harvard Admissions, said that recent events seem to have had no effect on the yield at Harvard...