Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seamus P. Malin '62, assistant dean of admissions, describes the applicant pool as a self-selected one. Most admissions officers say at least 80 per cent of all candidates are capable of surviving academically here. The number of acceptable candidates only diminishes as one begins to assess who would make a positive contribution--academic or otherwise--to the University. Jewett says 60 per cent of the pool is composed of students he would readily admit; David L. Evans, senior admissions officer, sets that figure at 40 per cent. Either way, the actual 17-per-cent acceptance rate represents...
...Vietnamese assess the U.S. military's technical superiority...
...permits and operating licenses. That alone would shave two or more years off the time between when a plant is proposed and when it finally begins production. If the bill becomes law. standardized plant designs will be encouraged; the Government will give cash and technical aid to states to assess their nuclear power needs; intervenors will be given funds in certain cases to fight against location of new plants, a bow to the conservationists. The bill also stipulates that once approval has been given by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a plant, it cannot be stalled by further litigation...
Most musicals, particularly those in which the score towers over the book, tend to direct themselves, given a competent cast, so it is difficult to assess what Paris Barclay has done in his Mainstage directorial debut. Many of the dialogue scenes fall flat--partly because of easily anticipated jokes and a few wooden characterizations--and by the second act the audience waits only for the next number to start. Several fine performances, though, keep this production of Company from being a skein of loosely-woven songs, the foremost among them Bonnie Lander's funny and beautifully-timed Joanne, the bitch...
Unfortunately, the examples used in the article to attack the SATs seemed ludicrous, although the arguments themselves bear some validity. I fault the article for not suggesting that Harvard must re-assess the validity of its use of SAT scores in evaluating white as well as minority standardized scores...