Word: scholasticism
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Academic accomplishment suggests the main shared value of all modern Harvard classes--that of scholarship. '59 was "brighter" than any Harvard class which preceded it. Its average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests were higher, as was its predicted academic performance. '59 quickly fulfilled its predictions: in its Freshman year...
Rosen is undergraduate secretary of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Sihler, an Honors concentrator in Government, was recently awarded the Charles Joseph Bonaparte Scholarship as the senior with the highest scholastic record in his field.
For 17-year-old Bill Waterhouse, a senior at Denver's East High School, the College Board examinations were a breeze. Last week school officials looked at Bill's scores for scholastic achievement tests taken in March, read the results with astonishment: perfect 800s in English, chemistry and...
When a student repeatedly makes perfect scores on tests to show how much he knows and how much he can learn, little is proved about the limits of his mind except what is self-evident-that a high-jumper can clear a high hurdle every time. Checking back to the...
The question of the "diamond in the rough" has caused many furrowed brows among Harvard admissions officials in the past few decades. One of the more difficult cases settled by the Admissions Committee last week concerned a straight-A student from a small Negro high school (74 in the graduating...