Word: folder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houses. A student's predicted rank list (a measure of how well the Deans expect him to do in his four years), his field of concentration, his athletic and extracurricular activities, and the personal evaluation of his proctor and senior advisor all become part of a freshman's folder...
Smith said that on the basis of these readings--two or three for each folder--the overall quality of this year's applicants is "slightly higher" than last year's. He added, however, that a true picture of this year's applicants is impossible to draw until the entire Committee has gone through every folder...
Every applicant is assigned an advocate according to the geographical location of his secondary school. The advocate is one of three men who read and evaluate an appilanct's folder, after which a preliminary decision is made in a small sub-committee responsible for a geographical area. If a student is rejected at this level, he is probably through. His case will not even be presented before the full admissions committee unless new evidence becomes available or, as Whitla puts it, "the advocate decides after sleeping on it that he didn't argue a certain case effectively in the area...
David K. Smith, director of Admissions, voiced support of Conant's position yesterday. "Tests are only useful in conjunction with other things--school reports, masters' reports, and interviews," he said. "At Harvard an applicant's school record is the most important thing in his folder...
...clear to readers from Newport to Sydney to the Isle of Wight. When Researcher Mimi Conway called at Mosbacher's office in New York to discuss the dia gram, he smilingly said, "I think I have exactly what your editors want for this." Thereupon he handed her a folder that turned out to be a promotion piece for the TIME-LIFE Books volume, Age of Exploration, containing a diagram of the Mayflower. Ultimately, though, he and his associates supplied all the special information we needed for graphic as well as verbal explanation...