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...possible methods present themselves. The first is to make a careful check-up of every applicant, recording his scholastic, his athletic, and his social standing. The mass of statistics would then be tabulated, and each college would receive a mathematically exact proportion of the more and the less desirable men. Merely to describe such a scheme is to demonstrate its infeasibility. Not only would an adequate consideration of these three criteria drive the distribution committee to insanity in a week, but there would be innumerable other factors entering in--particular scholastic interests or fraternities, for example--that would throw...
...solution has only begun when the routine check-up on the recount has been completed. Whatever the Council's interpretation of the facts may be, it should prove the present, unsavory rumors either false or true so that effective remedies can be taken in this instance and in future elections...
...sound in this day of experimentation, the ability to assimilate facts, acquire pure knowledge, is still very much in demand. Perhaps the University can afford to experiment judiciously with exempting high-stand scholars of accredited schools from examinations, but for Thomas, Richard, and Henry, there must still be a check...
...poll last spring. In the latter, Harvard expressed its approval of President Roosevelt's aims by a vote of 1,011 to 1,024. Whether or not the summer's industrial unrest has caused a reversal of this opinion is one of the main facts sought by the new check-up. VOTING PLACES TODAY All House Dinning Halls 12-1.45 o'clock and 5.30-7.15 o'clock Freshman Union Same Brooks House 12-2 o'clock Sever Hall 9-1 o'clock Harvard Hall Same
...Salvador never actually voted for the League Assembly's resolution, was one of five or six minor nations that "forgot" to reply to the League's check-up circular...