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...these fragile pieces are bound to be destroyed in transit, and libraries of tablets will be fragmented into smaller lots to be sold,” he says. “Once that happens, it will be very difficult to decipher the meaning of many of these texts, if they are ever recovered...
...slinks around the room and rubs her sternum into some unsuspecting noses. At the end of the performance, she tries to get a rise out of the audience. “Did anyone here use duct tape?” she asks, motioning to her crotch, which she has bound with paper towels and duct tape. No one answers. She tries again. “So all the lesbians here sleep with their roommates, right?” she asks. She gets a few chuckles...
...allowing the admissions office to “focus on those candidates who are free to accept our offer.” Presently, Harvard’s early applicants can simultaneously apply early decision elsewhere, which means the College sends thick letters to some students who are legally bound to attend another school. And yes, the time and resources spent debating applicants who, in the end, cannot legally attend Harvard—88 were accepted last year, according to McGrath-Lewis—is a burden...
...extra deliberation time necessary under the current system may actually be well spent. If the goal of the process is to select the most qualified applicants, then Harvard must consider even those applicants who might get bound to another institution. The admissions game—especially in the Ivy League—becomes more and more of a craps shoot each year. Highly qualified students who would surely be great additions to Harvard’s incoming class—and no-doubt look sharp in Crimson—might not get into their binding early decision schools. Harvard should...
...accept an offer to attend Harvard. Yield is used in the calculation of U.S. News and World Report rankings. And Harvard’s yield, which is the highest in the country at roughly 90 percent, will likely decrease if the College continues to accept students who may be bound elsewhere. Although it is misleading to count students in the yield who don’t have a choice in matriculation, if U.S. News continues to tabulate this way, Harvard should simply accept the slight drop in yield rather than change its policy...