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...Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon have been recalling the late John J. Raskob's half-forgotten rule of thumb (TIME. June 1) that even the stock of a promising company should be priced at no more than 15 times the company's per share earnings. If that ratio held, the warning ran, the Dow-Jones industrial average would have to sink to 540. Last week it fell even farther than that; in five days of almost unbroken decline's, it dropped to 539.19, the lowest closing since...
...proposals have been advanced to remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...
Radcliffe, on the other hand, announced last week that its '66 public school group will be 10 per cent higher than last year. Next year's class ratio is 59-37 with four per cent foreigners...
Refusing to speculate on Radcliffe's "big shift," Glimp said that Harvard's public-private ratio "is staying pretty constant because both sectors have improved equally." It is well known that the College is getting a wider and higher quality applicant group from the high schools, he said. What is less well recognized is that the private schools "have undergone a remarkable transformation in the last few years. The same fellows who came here from Andover and Exeter five years ago just aren't even applying now," he said...
Glimp defended the present ratio by pointing out that "PRL isn't the only thing we admit people on." He added that the admissions committee is looking more and more at personal qualities and extracurricular achievements than at the sacred "top one per cent." Many of the private schoolers with relatively low PRL's contribute to the intellectual and social atmosphere of the College, he maintained...