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From last year's inspection and a stack of notebooks on Europe that go back to 1926, Gunther extracts such conversational bits of color as the Albanians' name for their country (Shqiperia), Khrushchev's scholastic record (he was illiterate until his mid 20s), what Mr. K. and...
Despite a decline of 10%-12% in enrollment from last year, Princeton Theological Seminary is practicing a policy of "deliberate upgrading" in scholastic standards; e.g., Greek will be required for admission next fall. And President McCord notes that "the atmosphere on the campus in the '60s is markedly different...
All but Birth Control. Buildings are only half the story. Hesburgh completely revised the curriculum, tossed out vocational courses. To get better students, he held down enrollment (now 6,467) and raised admission standards. This year scholastic aptitude scores were 74 points higher than in 1955. To get better professors...
The SCCEP might well have trained its guns on the real weak spot of the program--the Advanced Placement tests. Opinion is almost unanimous that these examinations, taken in the spring of senior year in high school, are ridiculously easy. While of course they cannot show a student's emotional...
No member of the Committee was ever again to be so frank about the seemingly insurmountable problems its faces. Constance Ballou, Director of Admissions during the crucial years from 1954 through 1959, tried to clarify Radcliffe's standards without constructing specific patterns of required performance or potential. She stressed the...