Word: acceptant
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Harvard’s plan would put other Ivy League schools at a disadvantage, since they could no longer be sure that students they accept early would not instead attend Harvard...
...colleges cannot be confident that all the students they accept under early decision will enroll, they would need to waitlist more applicants to fill the slots left vacant by students who renege on their early decision agreement...
Varsity baseball pitcher W. Ben Crockett ’02 says athletes who pick Harvard accept the school’s academic demands and make a “rational choice” to sacrifice some extracurriculars or social activities...
Perhaps one of the hardest realities for athletes to accept is their sporting mortality. We all, at some point, fall from the center of attention. We move from the goal lines to the sidelines. The player becomes the coach, or at least the supportive (read: over-involved) parent. As A.E. Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” describes: “Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay/And early though the laurel grows/It withers quicker than the rose...
...Faculty’s vote to accept this policy change opened a pandora’s box of questions about Harvard’s resources for and responsibility to sexual assault victims and even suggestions that the Faculty overturn its decision...