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...rule prohibiting students from changing Houses until the end of their sophomore year has boosted the inter-House transfer acceptance rate to 84 percent this semester, housing officials said yesterday...
Beginning with the class of 1987, students must spend two full semesters in a House before they can apply for an inter-House transfer. Last year, before the rule went into effect, about 75 percent of all transfer applicants were sophomores, and only one-quarter of those were granted their transfer request...
There seems to be no solution that will alleviate the disappointment of those transfer students who are already here. But the problem, which is a few years old, does not have to continue indefinitely. The University knows that a Harvard student who has no choice but to live off-campus is not getting a full Harvard education, but year after year it admits so many students that this has to happen. A first, extremely useful step--for the alleviation of more than the transfer problem--is to limit the number of freshmen it lets in each year so that everyone...
...Transfer students deserve a little extra effort on the part of Harvard officialdom. They make the extra effort to come to Cambridge, they arrive with an inherent adjustment handicap, and all information seems to indicate that they do extremely well regardless. Giving them the chance to "do well" socially, as well as academically, is simply the logical fulfillment of accepting transfer students in the first place...
...could reappear in public at any moment, or be seen on Soviet TV. But even if the General Secretary resurfaces soon, it is apparent that the Soviet regime is once again face to face with one of its fundamental shortcomings: the lack of institutional means to ensure the orderly transfer of power. Given Chernenko's age and evident frailty, the Soviet Union may in any event soon be undergoing its third leadership succession since 1982. Indeed, Soviet analysts around the world are busy trying to assess the likely makeup of the next regime...