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Waiting2exhale
Sun, 19 May 2019 17:32:49 +0000

@damon30: Simply an excellent quote above. So moving, so poignant, so inspiring:

"From the Harvard admissions blog post I linked above.

‘We are eager to harbor the next Homer, the next Kant, or the next Dickinson. There is no reason why we shouldn’t expect such a student to spend his or her university years with us. Emerson did; Wallace Stevens did; Robert Frost did; Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery and Fairfield Porter and Adrienne Rich did … It remains for us to identify them when they apply—to make sure they can do well enough to gain a degree, yes, but not to expect them to be well-rounded …’ "