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...recommendation will be sent to Dean Rosovsky who will make the final decision on the size and sex ratio of next year's freshman class, Merrick B. Garland '74, chairman of CHUL's subcommittee on admissions, said yesterday...
WHEN PRESIDENT BOK proposed the 2.5-to-1 male-female ratio in the fall of 1971, he expected the addition of 300 undergraduates to the college by 1976. To accomodate the increase, Bok said, "Efforts will be made to provide new housing through methods of financing that would remove the need for substantial capital gifts...
Thus, after his televised appearance be fore a convention of news executives in Florida, presidential aides announced that of 1,000 telephone calls and 5,000 letters and telegrams, Nixon was being praised in a ratio of 12 to 1. But overall figures are still unavailable...
Senator Alan Cranston, a Democrat from California, reports nearly a 10-to-l ratio against the President in 35,000 letters, including one from a youth counselor in Whittier, Nixon's home town. "I find it a bit awkward to convince a wayward youth to be honest or just while our President sets such a startling example to the contrary," he wrote. A pro-Nixon letter from Newport Beach countered: "From the Viet Nam War through Watergate and calling Brezhnev's bluff, Mr. Nixon's full name should be President Guts Nixon...
...they knew and said at the time, I.Q. is not a scale of such human intelligence, but something very different: it expresses the relationship between a so-called "mental age" and the chronological age of a child in development (as a ratio, hence the name "intelligence quotient"). The technique was conceived and designed to test children, not adults. The notion that such a ratio makes for comparison among adults was and is ridiculous. This is clear especially from looking at the capacities of exceptionally intelligent adults: comparing the I.Q.'s of, say, Einstein, Judge Brandeis and the theologian Paul Tillich...