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Died. Lieut. General Oscar Woolverton Griswold, 72, XIV Army Corps Commander (1943-45) in the Southwest Pacific, whose troops made the assaults on New Georgia and Bougainville (9,000 Japanese were killed at a ratio of 30 to every American death), as part of the Sixth Army mopped up the Japanese in southern Luzon; in Colorado Springs, Colo...
Ever since the war, and particularly in the last ten years, applications to the College have risen sharply. The growing ratio of opplications to admissions made it necessary to form a working "policy of selectivity"--a set of criteria, however vague. And the possibilities of a hand-picked class encouraged extensive speculation, both within the Admissions staff and among other administrators, about the ideal Harvard class...
...courses, out of a total of 50 undergraduate offerings, seems hardly a fair ratio considering the importance of this period. Avid Egyptophiles can learn about the art of Karnak and Tutankamon's tomb next year in Fine Arts 131, but they cannot discover the history of the various dynasties. Students of Minoan or Cretan developments have only Professor Hanfmann's course in Aegean archaeology--next year--without a corresponding History course...
Though the university won the wage battle, it lost out in attempting to maintain a 13:1 student-faculty ratio. Legislative fiat revised this figure to 15:1. (Harvard's ratio is approximately 3.1.) "Even if we received the salary increase, we lost out," Mather comments wryly, "since professors are not interchangeable parts. The type of thinking--that a 13:1 ratio means there are 13 students to each class--is completely wrong. This makes professors only teachers; they must have time to think up ideas." With so much time necessarily devoted to instruction, few members of the UMass faculty...
...have been overbuilt. Los Angeles, with eight bowling centers in a 3½-mile radius, has been faced with bowling price wars. But the national average is still one lane for every 1,900 people, and bowling proprietors feel that one lane per 1,500 population is a safe ratio from the standpoint of profits...