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...questionnaire was sent to a random sample of graduate students at Harvard and other universities by the American Council--on Education--the largest national association of colleges and universities--and the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education...
Edwards said the questionnaire was sent to 51,000 graduate students selected at random from the available lists. A complete survey would have been too costly, he added...
...jarring music is an extension in sound of the calculus of probability, one of whose basic concepts is Bernoulli's law of large numbers. It says, in effect, that the occurrence of any chance event-the roll of a seven in dice, for example, or the random collision of stray molecules in the atmosphere-is more likely to conform to the prescribed statistical odds with each successive attempt. To Xenakis, this mathematical absolute has profound philosophical meaning: it implies that the changing structure of certain events in life, including the sounds that man creates, may tend ultimately toward...
WHIPPLE'S CASTLE by Thomas Williams. 536 pages. Random House...
...University Police, who presently only patrol the grounds, will check bells desks in the large brick dormitories "on a random basis during the night," he said...