Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Bulkily Silent. At Gadjah Mada University, Khrushchev seemed to be saying it was time for a change as he invited the cheering students to "try Communism." Waving his fists for emphasis, Nikita cried: "Each thinking person must wonder how it is that the working class of the Soviet Union-the peasants, the uneducated-took power, and in 42 years brought their country to second place in economic development and first place in the development of science...
...applications for next fall, "the greatest single jump we've ever had in a year." Yale will cull 1,000 freshmen from 4,800 fee-paid applications, 500 more than last year. Harvard has 5,000 final applicants, a record boost of 900 over last year. Yet freshman classes remain the same size. Harvard will actually try to cut its next class by 50 to 1,150. Says Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen: "Our first concern is to do well with our current number of students. After we've provided for them, we'll think...
...more than demolish aptitude tests, Harvard is not certain that it "bought" the right commodity. "Skill in taking such tests may be emerging as a national attribute," complained a Harvard faculty committee on college admission policy last week. The scores rise year by year: Harvard's current freshman class's median score was 691 on the math aptitude test, almost 100 points higher than the class of 1956. But real "intellectual promise" may be something else, suggested the committee. And all the emphasis on numbers has an ominous effect: "Who can say how many gifted youngsters are frightened...
...James B. Conant, president emeritus of Harvard, gave the first public report on his current study of U.S. junior high schools. Conant praised efforts to departmentalize the eighth grade (with four specialized teachers per class instead of one), but warned that "drastic revisions may be in order in many schools." Among them: a longer school day, a possible end to small schools. Then Conant loosed a blast. In his study so far (125 junior high schools in 17 states), he has found "an almost vicious overemphasis on athletics." Said Conant: "Colleges, of course, are by and large the worst sinners...
...aboard, is not alarmed by the news of the fire, and fortune at first seems to smile on his sangfroid. The blaze is quickly put out. But its heat has fused the safety valve of the No. 3 boiler, which eventually blows its top through third, second and first-class cabins and rips a sizable hole in the side of the ship. The captain orders the lifeboats lowered, and as bulkhead after bulkhead bursts, he makes his desperate calculations: in 50 minutes the Claridon will take the fatal plunge...