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These vast disparities do not themselves imply that we could do more to recruit qualified low-income candidates. We would expect smaller numbers at Harvard even with optimal recruiting, because educational and cultural barriers prevent some from receiving the academic preparation necessary to compete in the larger applicant pool. When I talked to her, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 rightfully rejected any romantic suggestion that admissions should accept students not fully prepared for the academic challenges they would face here...
...While most onsen offer a cozy, over-sized tub feeling, the Kanaya is a steaming behemoth of a bath, half the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. A thousand people might be hyperbole (a hundred is more like it), but so what? With wood paneling, high ceilings, statues of frolicking nymphs and a rotenburo, or outdoor bath, this steamy classic offers bathers the chance to par-boil in elegance or cool off under the night...
...floating aquarium would be just another run-of-the-mill m?lange of fish tanks and lazy sea otters were it not for one feature: heavy petting. Of dolphins, that is. The aquarium offers a variety of "dolphin contact" activities like the one I witnessed at the outdoor pool. Five rubber-suited visitors waded hip-deep into the water to touch, rub and coo over a handful of trained dolphins, including one that resembled a small whale. The idea of touching animals with big teeth freaks me out, so I retreated to the relative calm of the indoor aquarium...
...Crimson ended its season at the Northern Championships this weekend at Blodgett Pool with a heartbreaking 7-6 loss to unranked Brown in the opening game. The loss put the No. 15 Crimson into the consolation bracket, so the team could not place in the top four and advance to play in the Eastern Championship next week. Harvard went on to defeat the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and MIT to place fifth in the tournament...
...want our students to be welcome at other institutions, and it’s a form of reciprocity,” Rotner says of the VUS program. And the international applicant pool in particular is growing, Setti says. This fall she has gotten more requests for applications from Germany, the Netherlands and Italy than in previous years...