Word: folders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admissions procedures have become incredibly complicated. The stairway to intellectual paradise is blocked with piles of papers, covered with statistics and words, words, words. National Merit test scores (used to distinguish the brilliant student from the merely superior one) go into each girl's folder along with College Entrance Examination Board scores. Numerous reports and transcripts attempt to reveal the full picture of the applicant's secondary school record and personal background. Her principal and two teachers of her own choice write recommendations--often so hazy and meaningless that the Committee on Admissions must request further information. A detailed discussion...
...past, every members of the Committee on Admissions read each candidate's folder. Next year, however, the Committee (currently Mrs. Phillips Farrington, acting Director; and Associate Director; Deans Eliott, Williston, and Sherman; the Director of Financial Aid; and President Bunting) will divide up the applications into small groups, each to be assessed by one member. The change is designed to save time; it also suggests that the Committee wonders whether recent applications have been read with sufficient care...
...give out the medians as such, the application of a slide rule to the percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive at a formula evaluating SAT scores, achievement tests, and rank in secondary school class to project a freshman average for each applicant. When...
...morning of his flight, the airplane commander passwords his way through a series of guards until he arrives at intelligence headquarters. There he picks up his Combat Mission Folder, which is really a box containing his charts and maps and the arming devices for the bombs ("blivits") that are secured in the airplane's bomb bay. Together, pilot and intelligence officer unlock the orange box, take an inventory, lock it up again. The pilot signs for it, and the box is hauled to his plane, where it is chained to a post in the cockpit...
Just about everybody else had offered an idea for ending the civil war in Laos. Last week the most peaceable man around, King Savang Vatthana, had his try. Clad in a gold-buttoned tunic, grey pantaloons and black silk stockings, the King plucked a pink folder from atop a silver urn proffered by a kneeling courtier. In cadenced, elegant French, he read a message to "the countries of the world." Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance...