Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...strong team effort, the Crimson out-hustled and out-executed the larger but slower Engineers, creating one scoring opportunity after another. Morgan Belford notched the class of '84's first goal in a fashion indicative of Harvard's total domination...
...when he first became president," Buchwald told the crowd. "He is faced with scandal in the White House: he hasn't solved the problems of Iran, Afghanistan, welfare reform and energy. But I don't feel sorry for him. As I told him the other day--after Bible class--we never promised you a rose garden...
...tuition pocket, though, is somewhat of a bottomless pit. With the number of students applying to Harvard more than six times the number needed to fill Yard beds, the University could probably double tuition fees and still produce an acceptable Class of '85. Financial decision-makers should be commended for scrupulously avoiding any temptation of that sort. Their now familiar analogy--that the pricetag for a year at Harvard is about the same as the cost of a good new car--still holds true, even as tuition inches into double figures...
...lately the situation has become preposterous. In San Francisco two-thirds of the children applying to private kindergartens fail to get into their first-choice school. In Boston anxious parents of 80 preschoolers have sent in applications more than a year in advance for next year's class at the Commonwealth Day School. In New York the Educational Records Bureau, which evaluates applicants for kindergartens, is doing a thriving business. Says Helen LaCroix, director of admissions at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School: "It's become a little more difficult to get into a private kindergarten than...
Similarly, the study portrays the U.S. Episcopal Church-and the Anglican Church of Canada-the way a New Yorker cartoon might, as denominations held together less by shared belief than by cultural and class ties. According to the study, Episcopalians tend to have little interest in the Bible as a source of specific moral guidance. Parishioners' approval of a minister depends not so much on his faith as on how well he gets along with people, with heavy emphasis on humility and "lack of ego-strength." This, says the book, seems to "favor incompetence...