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Evalina Sharp is keen on Harvard. "I want to go to Harvard just more than anything," claims the Wellesley graduate student. She is the first woman to apply to the Harvard Law School, a previously publicized applicant dropped in for an interview but never made formal application.

Pressed for some sort of reason, she claims "I like it because everyone there enjoys studying so." Since her graduation from Sweet Briar College in 1948, Miss Sharp has been preparing for her momentous step by taking "all sorts of law courses."

Respect for the law runs in her family. Says she: "My mother did just about the same thing, but she got married before she went through with it."

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