Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...another. If, as he claims, there is little relation between postcollegiate success and test scores, then the wealthiest colleges that, he says, rely upon these figures could hardly be denying the poorer schools potentially eminent graduates. Admissions procedures that eliminate the creative student are hardly unique to this group of universities, but Holland has chosen to level these unrelated charges solely against them. Over-emphasis on preparation is a prevalent evil, but it has nothing to do with concentration of scholarship funds...
...apply and often cannot compete well "on paper" with his better prepared and richer rival. Institutions such as Harvard and Yale have taken the lead to reverse this trend, but probably only a massive and costly publicity campaign could increase interest in such colleges among the lower income group...
...Connor attacked Massachusetts Republicans for appealing to the voters solely on ethnic, color, racial, and religious lines. "By placing a Negro, a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, and a Yankee on the slate, the Republicans hope to pick up enough minority group votes to push over the top man on the statewide ballot--Senator Saltonstall," he charged...
Published below is the August 1, Statement of the Committees of Correspondence, a peace group last spring and centered in Cambridge. Among its original sponsors were professors David Riesman H. Stuart Hughes, as well as Erich , Harold Taylor (former President of Sarah Lawrence), and a member of pacifists...
...whom the study characterized as "the crown prince of and a "favorite of the Kremlin said he was amused by the group's charges. "I would have been very disappointed if my name were not one of those attacked," declared John Kenneth Galbralth, Paul M. Warburg Professor of economics...